It's been cultivated for thousands of years and boasts hundreds of varieties, but what is taro, exactly? We've got everything you need to know about this root.

If you are interested in growing your own nutritious greens, growing taro leaves indoors can be a rewarding experience ...

How taro is eaten around the world The root vegetable is one of the world’s oldest cultivated food plants—and parts of it can actually be poisonous if eaten raw. Here’s how it’s prepared ...

Though taro can flower and produce seeds like any other plant, it also reproduces by creating suckers, little plants that grow off the corm, which are a genetic clone of the original plant.

The first time Chris Smith tried to grow taro on his experimental farm in western North Carolina, the plants were too eager. He’d started them in a heated greenhouse one February day a few years ...

Find out what nutrients are in taro root and how it can help with everything from digestion to blood sugar management.

A research team has established a Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) system in taro, enabling researchers to rapidly verify gene functions in this underutilized crop.

The competition will take place once again at the 2025 East Maui Taro Festival on April 26 at the Hana Ballpark. The competition is open to all farmers on Maui growing Hawaiian kalo varieties in ...

Once known as the “Venice of the Pacific,” Lahaina was renowned for its elaborate fishponds and terraced fields of kalo – the ancestral taro plants carried across the Pacific in the very ...