Namea Hoshino helps Holy Innocents Preschool’s Isla David, 3, plant a stalk of kalo during the opening of a new Lahaina cultural park on the former site of the king’s kalo patch last week.

According to Keone Emiliano, the land steward and educator for Māhukona with HILT, when the students aren’t building beehive boxes, they have been planting native plants, like the kukui nut tree, ...

The word huli is also used to describe a portion of the stem of a taro plant, which is replanted after its initial harvesting. This replanting process makes taro an extremely sustainable ...

Donated taro huli, or starts, are planted in the lo’i kalo on April 24. Second photo: UH-Maui student and Aloha ‘Aina member Joseph Pascua carries a handful of muddy weeds to a bucket while he ...

Her group’s name – Huli Materials Lab – includes the Hawaiian word that means to study, to change, and is a part of “kalo” (taro plant) that is replanted into the ground to produce new plants. “Kalo ...

“It’s time. I’m harvesting all of the Maui lehua, and put the huli in the lo‘i I created across this one. This is rare. You’re not just watching a kalo harvest. This is the birth of a farm.