08-07-2025, 06:25 AM
This month: Learn about taro and several easier-to-grow relatives. We'll dig up giant taro & malanga, tasting them along with belembe & celery stem taro. Then we'll discuss growing, harvesting, and using these arums. We'll have keiki available for you to take home and grow yourself!
DAY: Sunday, August 10
CLASS: 11 AM til noon — Taro & other edible arums
TOUR: noon til 1, with time to chat or wander more afterwards.
PLANT GIVEAWAY: 1 PM
WHERE: Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF), at Living Planet Learning Center between Habitat Tattoo and the County Council building. Walk through the side gate to find us.
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARK: Across the street in the parking lot next to NAPA Auto Parts.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/LFA-free trays/pots/materials/plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Next month, September 14 - The soil food web
We hold regular work parties. If you'd like to learn hands-on, get in touch to find out our days and times!
We'll share seeds and starts of several species, including:
giant taro - unknown species - corm that's easier to grow, & less cooking required than taro
malanga - *Xanthosoma sagitifolium* - cormel like potatoes, related to tare but easier to grow & less cooking required
belemebe - *Xanthosoma brasiliense* - greens like taro without the need for prolonged cooking
Cacao - *Theobroma cacao*
Canary nut - *Canarium indicum* - similar to macadamia in tree form and in nut use
Paradise nut - *Lecythis zabucajo* - large tree, related to Brazil nut
Rollinia - *Rollinia deliciosa*
Soursop - *Annona muricata*
Fiberless soursop - *Annona muricata*
Grumichama AKA Brazilian cherry - *Eugenia brasiliensis*
Kukui - *Aleurites moluccana*
Ice cream bean - *Inga edulis* (probably) - great nitrogen-fixing chop and drop, and yummy fruit if it's allowed to become a large tree
West indian locust - *Hymanaea courbaril* - Large coppicable tree, maybe fixes nitrogen, fruit pulp made into porridge.
Peach palm - *Bactris gasipaes* - excellent staple crop
Elderberry - probably *Sambucus mexicana*
Silverberry 'Maculata' - *Elaeagnus pungens* - N-fixing ornamental shrub with edible berry
Pigeon pea seed - *Cajanus cajan*
Inca nut / sacha inchi - *Plukenetia volubilis* - staple nut from a vine
Perennial lima bean - *Phaseolus lunatus* - locally adapted cultivar
Lablab bean - *Lablab purpureus* - locally adapted cultivar
Cowpea "Red Ripper" - *Vigna unguiculata* - annual, but easy, fast growing sprawler with edible seeds
Oaxacan lemon verbena - *Lippia alba*
Vanilla vine
Pepper vine - *Piper nigrum*
Lolot - *Piper lolot* - Rambling ground layer herb
Achira - *Canna edulis* - vigorous ornamental root crop
Chinese lantern - *Abutilon* hybrid - productive ornamental flower crop
Ofenga 'Eldorado'- *Pseuderanthemum carruthersii reticulatum* - tough ornamental shrub, great leaf crop
Sweet pepper bush - *Capsicum sp.*
Bele AKA edible hibiscus - *Abelmoschus manihot*
Chaya - *Cnidoscolus chayamansa*
Cassava - *Manihot esculenta*
Longevity spinach - *Gynura procumbens*
Katuk - *Sauropus androogynus*
Chipilin - *Crotalaria longirostrata*
African blue basil - *Ocimum kilimandscharicum x basilicum* 'Dark Opal'
Vietnamese coriander - *Persicaria odorata*
...and more...
Hope you can join us for any or all of it!
DAY: Sunday, August 10
CLASS: 11 AM til noon — Taro & other edible arums
TOUR: noon til 1, with time to chat or wander more afterwards.
PLANT GIVEAWAY: 1 PM
WHERE: Pahoa Urban Food Forest (PUFF), at Living Planet Learning Center between Habitat Tattoo and the County Council building. Walk through the side gate to find us.
ADDRESS: 15-2881 Pahoa Village Rd, Pahoa
PARK: Across the street in the parking lot next to NAPA Auto Parts.
COST: Suggested $10 donation in time/cash/LFA-free trays/pots/materials/plant keiki
ABOUT LPLC: https://livingplanetalliance.org
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Next month, September 14 - The soil food web
We hold regular work parties. If you'd like to learn hands-on, get in touch to find out our days and times!
We'll share seeds and starts of several species, including:
giant taro - unknown species - corm that's easier to grow, & less cooking required than taro
malanga - *Xanthosoma sagitifolium* - cormel like potatoes, related to tare but easier to grow & less cooking required
belemebe - *Xanthosoma brasiliense* - greens like taro without the need for prolonged cooking
Cacao - *Theobroma cacao*
Canary nut - *Canarium indicum* - similar to macadamia in tree form and in nut use
Paradise nut - *Lecythis zabucajo* - large tree, related to Brazil nut
Rollinia - *Rollinia deliciosa*
Soursop - *Annona muricata*
Fiberless soursop - *Annona muricata*
Grumichama AKA Brazilian cherry - *Eugenia brasiliensis*
Kukui - *Aleurites moluccana*
Ice cream bean - *Inga edulis* (probably) - great nitrogen-fixing chop and drop, and yummy fruit if it's allowed to become a large tree
West indian locust - *Hymanaea courbaril* - Large coppicable tree, maybe fixes nitrogen, fruit pulp made into porridge.
Peach palm - *Bactris gasipaes* - excellent staple crop
Elderberry - probably *Sambucus mexicana*
Silverberry 'Maculata' - *Elaeagnus pungens* - N-fixing ornamental shrub with edible berry
Pigeon pea seed - *Cajanus cajan*
Inca nut / sacha inchi - *Plukenetia volubilis* - staple nut from a vine
Perennial lima bean - *Phaseolus lunatus* - locally adapted cultivar
Lablab bean - *Lablab purpureus* - locally adapted cultivar
Cowpea "Red Ripper" - *Vigna unguiculata* - annual, but easy, fast growing sprawler with edible seeds
Oaxacan lemon verbena - *Lippia alba*
Vanilla vine
Pepper vine - *Piper nigrum*
Lolot - *Piper lolot* - Rambling ground layer herb
Achira - *Canna edulis* - vigorous ornamental root crop
Chinese lantern - *Abutilon* hybrid - productive ornamental flower crop
Ofenga 'Eldorado'- *Pseuderanthemum carruthersii reticulatum* - tough ornamental shrub, great leaf crop
Sweet pepper bush - *Capsicum sp.*
Bele AKA edible hibiscus - *Abelmoschus manihot*
Chaya - *Cnidoscolus chayamansa*
Cassava - *Manihot esculenta*
Longevity spinach - *Gynura procumbens*
Katuk - *Sauropus androogynus*
Chipilin - *Crotalaria longirostrata*
African blue basil - *Ocimum kilimandscharicum x basilicum* 'Dark Opal'
Vietnamese coriander - *Persicaria odorata*
...and more...
Hope you can join us for any or all of it!