Taro

(Colocasia esculenta)
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Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is one of a number of similar looking plants with similar culinary uses in the Araceae family, causing some confusion with common plant names in different regions. Taro is considered the most widely cultivated and eaten of these plants, producing large central edible corms as well smaller edible eddoes. Taro also has edible leaves (when properly prepared). Taro is found and used across the tropics, with a multitude of preparations, including the Hawaiian ferment, Poi. 

 

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OUR WORK

  • In 2021 The Utopian Seed Project plans to do a larger variety screening trial, as well as growing a larger quantity of Korean Taro for market exploration. 
  • In 2020 we shared the Korean variety with a small number of farmers across the Southeast to establish its regional potential as well as its farm scale value (Covid-19 led to a reduced capacity of farmers to participate in trials). Michael Carter of Carter Farms (video above) grew out our taro for leaf production. We also shared with a Burmese community in NC at Transplanting Traditions.
  • In 2019, a small planting of just six plants of our Korean cultivar produced around 26lbs of eddoes, which were served at our annual Trial to Table Farm Dinner. Board member, Jamie Swofford, began establishing a chef fan base in the Charlotte region.
  • Prior to 2019, board member, Yanna Fishman has been growing taro for a number of years. We are working with the varieties that she’s found promising and building on her work.

This is a cell cultured Bun Long taro from @treeamigosgrowers - this is a known edible variety that we are going to expand this year and then use as a baseline variety in our trials next year. It`s always useful to have a `check` to compare everything else to i.e. whenever I grow okra I always include Clemson Spineless so I can say things like, it`s taller or it`s tastier than Clemson Spineless! Bun Long will be our taro version of , Clemson Spineless.

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For the next few months we`ll be catching up with the `reporting` side of our work! We`ll let you know the lessons we`ve learned and will be updating the website with pictures and details and resources.

For the next couple of weeks we`ll be focused on Taro (Colocasia esculentua). It`s a proven staple in most tropical regions with a long history and strong cultures. It`s also proving to be productive in Western NC. In 2021 we are hoping to expand our taro trials to assess more varieties and run some nutritional analysis (especially looking at calcium oxalates).

Stay tuned!

Grown and photographed by Yanna Fishman.

#taro #tropicalperennials #experimentalroots
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After a disrupted year, we`re delighted to have the kids at Bumakenya Primary School back in the classroom.

The schedule is different, exams are much later with lots of learning to catch up, but we always adapt and make the best of any situation!

The TUSP Team can’t wait to get back out to Uganda and back to Bumakenya Primary School!

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Taro Notes

TESTING A THEORY

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Taro Varieties