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Poppendieck, Janet
Free for All, 12/2009, Volume: 28Book Chapter
The road that leads up the Maunawili Valley on the windward side of the Island of Oahu is rutted and uneven. When the truck had bounced along for a mile or so, my host, Mark Paikuli-Stride, stopped to open a forest gate and say a brief blessing. The valley, he told me, was sacred. In that almost mystical setting, it was easy to absorb his reverence for the fertile land and clean water that are needed to produce taro, the most traditional of Hawaii’s traditional crops. Paikuli-Stride is both a taro farmer and the executive director of the Aloha ‘Aina
