Akamai Backyard is garden of ‘eating’

Home school project teaches sustainability

It’s like the garden of Eden on steroids.

Taro, bananas, sugar cane. Mango, papaya, sweet potatoes. Eggplant, bitter melon, squash. Beets, asparagus, pigeon peas, and tomatoes. Dozens of herbs, native Hawaiian medicinal plants, even a cotton plant that, well, is more like a tree. Even some plants obtained in a seed exchange that nobody’s quite sure what they are.

It’s all in a one-third acre backyard in Kilauea that still has plenty of lawn, a … [read more]

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