Kalo 

8 creative works found

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  Kalo Leaves & Ti
  by THConway

  Photo taken of kalo (taro) plant with red ti leaves.

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  Taro Fields Sustainable Farming Sunrise Ke'anae Peninsula Maui Hawai'i
  by Sharon Mau

  Ke’anae Peninsula / Taro Fields / Sustainable Farming / Ke’anae Peninsula Maui Hawai’i / Fine Art Photography by Sharon Anne Mau / Sunrise 25 April 2009 / Best viewed Full Size Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi Ke-’anae History “Ke-’anae is legendary for its taro farming, which has been passed down through generations of families. Legend tells of an industrialist King that turned the barren Ke-’anae Peninsula into a rich farming area where taro could be grown. Today, the Ke-’anae-Wai-lua area is one of the major commercial wetland taro farming regions in the Hawaiian Islands. / / Taro is one of the staple foods of the Hawaiian culture. The whole taro plant may be eaten. The root may be steamed and pounded into Poi or made into chips. The stems (Ha-Ha) are commonly cooked with meat, and the leaves may be steamed and eaten, having the taste and texture that is similar to spinach.” Information Source ~ Hana Legends “Before there were people, there were the gods. They had descent and genealogy, like people. Some were more like humans, and some were less. Among the more human-like were Wakea – the Sky Father, and Papa – the Earth Mother. They lived in a place which floated about between the clouds. Even now, people who look carefully at the clouds will see some which look solid, like islands in the sky. They are the cloud-island homes of gods and goddesses.” “Most Hawaiian grown Taro is allocated to four major uses: Poi, table taro, taro chips, and luau leaf. Taro for poi is cultivated by both the dryland and wetland methods. Varieties commonly used are the Lehua Maoli, `Maui’ Lehua, and Moi. The Chinese Bun Long is used as table taro, luau (taro leaf), and – the delight of local yuppies – taro chips. Dasheen or araimo, Japanese taro, also is used as a table taro. The Samoan Niue is primarily used as a table taro.” Information Source “Due to Hawai’i’s isolated geographic location, the islands are among the most biologically diverse areas in the world, with numerous endemic species (found nowhere else). Unfortunately, this also means that Hawai’i’s fragile ecosystem has a much greater number of endangered and threatened species than any other state. Along with the endemic species, prominent in Hawai’i’s ecosystem are a couple of dozen Polynesian introduced plants that arrived along with migrations in voyaging canoes. These “canoe plants” along with many endemic species play essential roles in Hawaiian culture, for food, fiber, tools, building materials, medicine and art.” Maui Culture Poi to the World / “Taro was first brought to Hawai’i by the Polynesians in double-hulled sailing canoes, perhaps as long ago as 450 A.D. Taro (colocascia esculenta) is a Samoan word. The traditional Hawaiian name is “Kalo.” Whatever you call it, this perennial herb that we use to make poi is one of the oldest cultivated crops. In ancient Hawai’i, the cultivation of taro was associated with the god Kane (pronounced Ka-ney), procreator and life giver, provider of water and sun. Only men could plant, harvest and pound taro. Women were allowed to cultivate other crops such as sweet potato and ere said to have eaten 10-15 pounds of poi a day. When the poi was on the table, people were not to argue or speak in anger. To the Hawaiian people, both before and after 1778, poi was a staple food, and a sacred one at that. Its significance is great in Hawaiian culture. This sacredness is reflected in Hawaiian mythology where taro is believed to have the greatest life force of all foods. The god Wakea (sky father) and his daughter, Ho’ohokulani (child of Papa the earth mother), had a child named Haloanaka (quivering long stalk). The infant was stillborn and out of the spot he was buried, the first kalo plant grew. Haloanaka’s younger brother, also named Haloa, became the ancestor of the people. In this way, taro was the older brother and man the younger—both being children of the same parents. Being first in birth, taro was considered superior to man himself.” Kapahu Living Farm, Kipahulu, an ancient taro farm restored to active production

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  Small Kid Time Hana Butta Days ~ 17th Annual East Maui Taro Festival Hana Maui Hawai'i
  by Sharon Mau

  Small Kid Time / Hana Buttah Days / From my collection: / Keiki o ka ‘Aina History East Maui Taro Festival / 17th Annual East Maui Taro Festival Hana Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / 25 April 2009 To our ohana and friends, if you would like a print, send me a note and let me know. They are adorable! I do hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

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  Arianrhod's Touch
  by Sharon Mau

  Sunrise Rainfall Ke’anae Peninsula Maui Hawai’i Copyright © Sharon Mau 2007 – 2010 / Ourjrny / The Heart Within the Art / All Rights Reserved The beautiful remote village of Ke’anae is on the tip of the peninsula below. This is true Hawai’i where our Ohana and friends, Kanaka Maoli, the familes who live here, are descendents of many generations of farmers and practice ancient and cultural practices in sustainable land, fresh water, crops and taro farming and conservation. We have many Ohana and friends who live in this area. If you visit Ke’anae, please drive slowly as there are many children, do not enter private drives, and please be respectful for, the moment you drive off the road to Hana and turn down onto the Keana’e Peninsula, remember you are on private land. “Your touch was gentle. / I hardly noticed you enter within the circle of my life. / But yet, / you took hold of my heart, and led me along an ancient path. / Back to the places of the Ancestors and the Old Gods. You spun an unseen magic that found its way into my life. / As I lay with that circle of stones, ancient and worn, and looked up into the starry sky, / I could never have imagined that I would see the world through your eyes or touch your magical realm, a vision of the sparkling walls of your celestial home, held within your divine radiance, my Goddess of the Fates. And yet, / was I not always your child waiting to be born? / Your voice murmuring in the night. / The sigh of the wind on the moor, / and within the places of the dreaming, / carried by the sound of the Shaman’s drum. The many things you have shown me, in waking and in sleep, snatches of an ancient melody, / steps of a timeless dance. The weaver of the web, of which I am but one small strand…. / your essence flows within my veins, / your song hidden within my dreams, / waiting to be revealed.” ~ poetry by Vanora Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / This is a composite of two of my images, one taken of the sky at sunset on Po’olenalena Beach over Kaho’olawe Island and the second of rainfall on Ke’anae Peninsula at sunrise.

• Kai Makani Ho'ohinuhinu
  by Sharon Mau

  Jacob and I are in this YouTube video! We were at the MACC, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului here on Maui where Jacob was d…

  Jacob and I are in this YouTube video! We were at the MACC, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului here on Maui where Jacob was displaying his beautiful tropical flowers of Hawai’i photographs for sale along with many other talented local Maui artists and musicians. You may see us here at the 3rd Annual Maui Ukulele Festival 2008 Aloha kakou, I created a video with some of my favourite photographs. It includes a beautiful mele. Keali’i Reichel sings Malama E Ala ‘E You may view it if you like on my YouTube site / Ourjrny YouTube E Ala ‘E Please rate it, comment if you like and let me know what you think of it. / For your enjoyment, I am in the midst of creating another video with my photographs of tropical flowers featuring the beautiful mele by other talented Kanaka, Hawaiian musicians and songwriters as well. Mahalo nui for your gifts of Aloha. Every purchase of my images mean more to me than you could possibly imagine, and help sustain us on this very beautiful and unbelievably expensive island :) Mahalo nui loa, thank you so much for your wonderful comments, encouragement and support. From my Na’au to yours, I wish you Love and many blessings. Aloha e Malama pono, Sharon

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  Kahakuloa Village Maui Hawai'i
  by Sharon Mau

  Jacob and I are in this YouTube video! We were at the MACC, The Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului here on Maui where Jacob was displaying his beautiful tropical flowers of Hawai’i photographs for sale along with many other talented local Maui artists and musicians. 3rd Annual Maui Ukulele Festival 2008 Shafts of afternoon sunlight and near-vertical beams of crepuscular rays and prismatic colours illuminate the valley above Kahakuloa Village Maui Hawai’i The population of this lovely remote village is about 100 people. This is true Hawai’i, where many of our Ohana and friends live, in particular our dear friend “Kupuna Richard Ho’opi’i, his beautiful wife and their Ohana. Kahakuloa is a beautiful place where the Aloha spirit and Hawaiian culture thrives and the people are stewards of the land, actively practicing and perpetuating ancient Hawaiian traditions, culture and customs of sustainable farming and fishing, responsibly managing land, water and natural resources. Kahakuloa Stream flows through this valley where it meets the Pacific Ocean at Waihale Cove in the bay on the right just outside the frame in this image. On the Hawaiian Islands, Kalo, also known as Taro is a traditional staple, as in many tropical areas of the world, and is the base for making poi. There is also a beautiful Loko i’a, “The Hawaiian people practice aquaculture through development of fishponds (Hawaiian: loko iʻa), the most advanced husbandry of fishes among the original peoples of the Pacific. These fishponds are shallow areas of a reef flat surrounded by a low rock wall (loko kuapa) built out from the shore. Several species of edible fish (such as mullet) thrive in such ponds, and methods were developed to make them easy to catch. The rock walls, being somewhat porous, let in seawater (or sometimes fresh or brackish water, as in the case of the “Menehune” fishpond near Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi), but prevent the fish from escaping. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “Crepuscular rays, in atmospheric optics are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. The name comes from their frequent occurrences during crepuscular hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious.” Atmospheric Optics Information Source “The trade winds are strong at lower altitudes, fresh and invigorating after having traveled over thousands of kilometers of open ocean. The warm moist air blows past Kahakuloa, rises and condenses against the West Maui mountains in a thick cloud, so thick that the forests beneath look black. The peak within the clouds, Pu’u Kukui, receives about 988 centimeters of rain each year, making it the third wettest place in Hawai’i and ranking high among the wettest places on earth. A volcanic dome lies at the end of Kahakuloa Stream. Kahakuloa is at the mouth of the stream, Mount ‘Eke at it’s head. ‘Eke is a thick, steep sided dome with a flat top looking like an upside down cupcake. The dome rests on three flows of trachyte, each 320 meters thick.” Geological and Historic Information Source: Will Kyselka and Ray E. Lanterman Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 01 December 2008 15:28:00 / Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE / Shutter Speed 1/500 Aperture 8.0 / Evaluative Metering ISO 200 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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  Jacob Mau in the Ke'anae Taro Fields with Isaac Kanoa ~ Taro ~ Gift of the Ancient Gods
  by Sharon Mau

  Here is my beloved husband Jacob Mau (on the left) with our good friend Isaac holding premium organic freshly harvested Taro today in Isaac’s Taro (Kalo) fields of Ke’anae, his gifts of Aloha for us. Mahalo Isaac! “So it’s said in one of the ancient Hawaiian legends about the origins of Taro, a root superior and older than people. In Hawai’i, Taro truly is the staff of life. According to the kapu, only men are allowed to grow it. This starchy root has been cultivated worldwide for over 2000 years. The earliest recordings of this versatile plant date from 23 BC, when Greek and Roman writers first located it in Ancient Egypt. Yet only in Hawai’i are the traditions of taro cultivation so tied in to cultural and even religious beliefs and practices. Still today, taro is a way of life. It is the heart beat of the land and its people. Knowledge of its cultivation and its qualities has been passed down from generation to generation. Taro farmers often spend the day in knee high water, planting new keikis, harvesting mature corms, and weeding the abundant tropical growth around the invaluable food source. Botanically, taro (Colocasia Esculenta) belongs to the family of Araceae, which includes the better known philodendron, dieffenbacchia and anthurium. The true taro lover compares the hundreds of ever changing varieties with the same appreciation and poetic language as a fine wine connoisseur distinguishes her wines. “E’ ai a ma’ ona.” The life of Kanaka Maoli, the indigenous Hawai`i people, is linked closely with kalo, also knows as the taro plant. Kalo is believed to have the greatest life force of all foods. According to the Kumulipo, the creation chant, kalo grew from the first-born son of Wakea (sky father) and Papa (earth mother), through Wakea’s relationship with his and Papa’s daughter, Ho`ohokulani. Haloa-naka, as the son was named, was stillborn and buried. Out of his body grew the kalo plant, also called Haloa, which means everlasting breath. Kalo and poi (pounded kalo) are a means of survival for the Hawai`i people. By eating kalo as poi, one at a time as a ritual around the poi bowl (`umeke) at the center of the diners, the protocol of Hawai`i is maintained. This is a ceremony of life that brings people together and supports a relationship of `ohana (family) and of appreciation with the `aumakua (ancestors). Read more on Kalo here We will be at the Grand Wailea in the morning for a very special sunrise ceremony. Jacob and I will be participating in a cultural event, a Hawaiian ceremony and he, along with many other Na Kupuna o Maui (Hawaiian Elders on the island of Maui) from the many Moku (districts) of Maui will be paddling canoes and performing Olelo. We will have a ceremony and a seminar as well. Mahalo nui loa to all of you for your kindness. If you are here on Maui, please join us tomorrow morning for our sunrise ceremony. ‘Ike aku, ‘ike mai, kokua aku kokua mai; pela iho la ka nohana ‘ohana / Translation: Recognize others, be recognized, help others, be helped; such is a family relationship. Explanation: This saying teaches why we should put family first…In the Ohana or family, you know others and they know you, you help others and know you will be helped if there is anything you need Aloha kākou We need Ducks to deal with the serious problem of the large snails in the Taro Fields which are damaging the Taro. Domestic Ducks are the most effective natural organic method for removing the snails. The Golden Apple Snails are invading the fields and ravaging the Taro crops. / It is a serious problem. “Originally from South America and introduced as aquarium pets in the islands, the snails were brought to taro farms on Maui, the Big Island and Kauai as a supplemental crop… to raise them for sale as escargot …. Farmers could not expand the escargot market, while the snails infested the fields and continue to devastate the taro crop. State officials releasing the snails into the wild in an effort to control weeds only made the matter worse… “They were considered innocuous at the time (in the early 1990s), but they are really invasive alien species. All you need is two, and at the end of the year, you are going to have 28 million. And it’s impossible to kill them.” The snails are found on O’ahu, Kaua’i, Maui and the Big Island.” / Read more on The Battle in the Taro Patch here All proceeds from the sales of this image will be used for purchasing and acquiring ducks for the Ke’anae Taro Farmers. Mahalo nui loa for your gifts of Aloha. Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / My images do not belong to the public domain. Reproduction is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 03 September 2009 12:02:09 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/200 / Aperture 9.0 / ISO 100 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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  Reflections
  by Lij808

  Reflections of taro (kalo) plants on water.