Jerry Konanui on Kalo, Biodiversity, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Science 

He speaks words of wisdom.

Thank God for this beautiful, knowledgeable and important man. It is people like Jerry and those who listen to him and act, take back and see the truth, understand it and bring it back into our life that will save this planet, the people and all living things.

Everything He says is extremely, ultimately important.

Mahalo Uncle Jerry for the life-sustaining lessons and especially for your mana’o. Mahalo ❤

I sure love this guy! He is like my grandfather and brings back only fond memories! I live in Oregon and miss my years of growing up in Hawaii. I listen, just to hear him speak! He warms my heart.

Who are you, man!? Explanation is so clear. Makes me wish my granpa is still alive so I can ask more about all these plants. Thanks so much...

Thanks for sharing with all the world the Hawaiian way of life, so many people have no idea about exactly how smart the Hawaiian people are/was. I'm so lucky I was born and raised in this culture. Maikaʻi kēia kanaka Mahalo nui loaAloha

My Granny would tell me, there is nothing wrong in being a rancher, farmer, fisherman, planter of vegetables and fruits because that is how you survive by food not by 💰 money, just by doing what is needed to survive.

Gotta give so much respect and honor for the farmers. Takes alot of hard work and effort to maintain these beautiful lo' i patches. Mahalo for what you do and for sharing your mana'o. Keep up the good work!!!

We need this kind of mana'o. Mahalo Unco Jerry

I love Jerry. I am a cook islander who is returning to Rarotonga to live and to cultivate the taro patch of my ancestors and I was worried about whether I can do I good job. I have been studying but I was still concerned - but I have felt them - my ancestors - I know they are present but I didn't think to listen to them; I didn't think to listen to the taro or the insects and let them guide me. I am indebted to you Jerry. I know that my ancient polynesian ancestors are also yours - thanks bro

Great video. So important to make sure we continue the knowledge. Can't even say how grateful I am for this.

Gosh this makes me miss home. Always fighting the modern way of thinking, harder still here on the mainland. Must listen. Must love. Nana i ke kumu.

Miss you Uncle Jerry and your wisdom. Thank you!

Mama used to always cook with Po'lulu for make all kind Laulau dishes (chicken, squid, pork, etc.). So when I go home for visit, I always eat Po'lulu food not just for its taste but also for the memory of Ma in the kitchen in Palolo Valley. Mahalo for reminding me Jerry.

Talofa Jerry.. Loved the presentation and the spiritual connection you include in this. When our Polynesian forefathers voyaged around Oceania in the past milleniums they took with them these knowledge and sustenance that allowed them to survive the elements and the environments. Yes...u are on the money here... they are still sitting on our shoulders reminding us to maintain and sustain these wisdom and wairua....hence in our dna. mahalo

Sending so much love and respect. From one Farmer to another. Thank you for sharing this sacred knowledge. Keep strong.

Just watched again. I miss Hawaii so so much. I long for everything, the aina, the people, the food, the weather, talk story. Blessing to you again

Wow...I sat QUIETLY watching him download the wisdom of the ANCIENTS...TKS so much Sir. SHALOM

Dude, very inspiring. Thank you for what you do.

Thank you for keeping your heart wisdom alive.

Thanks.the BEST lecture.ancient science is pure science.

Mahalo Unko Jerry Konanui for sharing your combined knowledge passed down! 🤙 Awesome

I like this guy

wonderful! so much wisdom and knowledge ......Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for educating us. We have much to learn.

Mahaloo nui, e anakala Jerry. Nui na mea i ʻao aku ʻoe ia makou!

Uncle Jerry is absolutely amazing!! What a wonderful Philosophy for anything in life. Sort of what the Wizard of Oz was all about the Tin Man wanted a heart but he had a bigger heart and reality was Kinder than anybody else! The Scarecrow wanted a brain and yet he was the smartest one of the bunch and understood everything he didn't need a diploma. And the lion wanted courage and he was the bravest of them all. Uncle Jerry is trying to tell you you need to understand your environment you need to understand nature you need to understand the plant you need to understand yourself. A degree does it mean anything if you don't understand. He is an amazing man thank you very much for sharing this

Uncle Jerry you know sooooooooo much ... thank you for sharing your knowledge

Love this. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and how it is so important to know deeper than just what a book can tell you. The words that pass from generations to generations are the most valuable treasures of humanity.

Thank you for your wisdom and dedication. I admire you.

Mahalo pita e 'Anakala Jerry for sharing your mana'o. I could sit at the feet and listen all day

Dropping that ʻike 💜 Rest in peace & love Uncle Jerry

Wise farmer..

Rest in Love Jerry!!

An absolutely brilliant video! THANK YOU!!

Jerry, I like your style.

This was so enlightening. Mahalo for sharing your knowledge

Uncle I really enjoyed this video. You are a wonderful teacher. I wish we had met when I lived on the Big Island.

Farmers are jewels of the ages when it comes to food survival

Hats off, Sir. So much respect.

Thank you for sharing uncle. It's wonderful to hear you share knowledge. I am trying to bring back the taro as a staple in Aotearoa. Watching these videos helps me.

Mahalo Uncle Aloha nui loa

A person with a mouth full of food should never look down on a farmer.

UNCLE IS FROM THAT ANCIENT SOURCE. JUST WATCHING THIS VID I SEE HOW MUCH MAGICK OR MANA THE KANAKA ARE ABLE TO ACCESS.THE VERSATILITY THE ADAPTABILITY THE INTELLIGENCE AND OF COURSE THE WISDOM THEY CAN ACHIEVE. I SEE THIS THROUGH UNCLE. HE OBVIOUSLY PUTS IN THE WORK JUST CAUSE HE KNOWS THAT MOST PEOPLE NOWDAYS WONT TAKE A PERSONS WORDS SERIOUS UNLESS THEY ARE SPEAKING ABOUT CERTAIN OR MOST SUBJECTS IN A SCIENTIFIC MANOR. SO HE USES AND DROPS THE SCIENCE ON KALO JUST SO A CERTAIN TYPE OF PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO TAKE HIM SERIOUS OR BETTER YET HE PROVES OR SCHOOLS THESE SO CALLED SCIENTIST WRONG. HE SHOWS THEM THEIR ERROR WITH THEIR OWN SCIENCE. SCIENCE IS FROM MAN AND IS MEANINGLESS? IF YOU STOP LOOKIN SO MUCH AT THE SURFACE LEVEL UNDERSTANDING AND GO DEEPER AND REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT SCIENCE IS SOMETHING THE ANCIENTS LEARNED AND WAS PART OF EVERYDAY LIVING. "SCIENCE" THE WORD WAS JUST MADE UP. THAT SHAMANISTIC KUPUNA KAHUNA WITCH DOCTOR OR WHATEVER U CALLS IT, THAT TYPE OF MINDSTATE FLOW WITH THE ENERGIES WAS WHAT THEY CALL SCIENCE TODAY. I LOVE HAWAII AND THE KANAKS

Uncle Jerry I've watched you video, and fell I love with it. I dont know too much about kalo, don't even eat kalo. My husband LOVE poi. He will eat poi over anything else but little bit pricey now days, but whenever can I'll get him poi. I find listening to you in your video made me so in the zone, and find it so interesting, and so true. Chicken skin! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. God Bless you, and you ohana.

Very interesting. We grow taro in africa too. Thank you

wonderful video very informative

I enjoyed this video thank you so much for sharing uncle

THANK YOU MAHALO

Unko who look down their nose at mahi'ai? Mahi'ai are the people who care for our ancestor Haloa, and it is he who feed us all!! For all of you young people, understand our kupuna and thier 'ike thier mana'o thier mo'olelo are what developed over hundreds and thousands of years, no let us go, keep studying learning and passing down so our descendants can still malama 'aina.

Cousin, you're so awesome!

My thing is in America we worry about rotting the bulb. But y'all got it sitting in water.

Thanks for sharing knowledge peace and love to you

Mahalo for the fantastic break down of knowledge.

Oh my God. Understanding. Master speaking here.

Good day sir Jerry.. lm from the Philippines,. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about TARO FARMING.. because how important to me to have knowledge from you.. I am very interested..thank you so much sir.

Mahalo for your knowledge and willingness to share.

Mahalo uncle Jerry 😊for sharing your mana'o❣ The Kalo is a spiritual connection the Hawaiian of old Hawaii, understood its life sustainable food! The Kalo farmers are connected to the Kalo in humility & appreciation, what it takes to keep our Kalo thriving with their wisdom. Ola ke Kalo, Ola ke Kalo ke kanaka, means if the taro lives, the Hawaiian live ❤

Huge insight and wisdom here. Mahalo!

Trying to grow Taro/Kalo in Florida. I wish I had my grandfather with this knowledge to teach me.

Extraordinary video.

Very informative and inspiring.

Mahalo Uncle Jerry!

The plant at 7:34 we in Trinidad cook the leaves and stalks into Calaloo and also the roots separate, nothing is wasted in that plant, it is a famous weekend dish here and grows in almost every kitchen garden.

Wow! You taros is look beautiful. Montagnard indigenous we called bua, we eat the roots, cook stalks, leaves it’s tasty.

I've been transcribing part of this talk for an article I'm writing. Here's what I've done so far: "A lot of people look down on us as mahi'ai, as farmers. 'He's only a farmer.' They fail to realize that to be a good mahi'ai yeah, you have to know the universe of a mahi'ai, which means I have to be a water scientist. I have to be a soil scientist. I have to be a weatherman to be able sense the wind, the rain. The whole environment is my universe. So when people look at a mahi'ai or a farmer or a hula dancer and say "She's just a humu hula," or "he's just a farmer", they don't realize the extent of knowledge. Kupuna ike, the knowledge of our ancestors, is the science. The big difference with science today and a science of yesterday is: (1) science of yesterday, we're not limited by money; (2) we're not limited by time. It takes us three generations to verify that that variety can grow in the cold waters or the hot water. That's what it will take. Today's science, they focus all way down to the atom, to the element. But because they're restricted by funding and time, the focus is too narrow. They don't know the consequences of what is outside of this lo'i [taro patch]. They don't know that five years from now, that taro they bred will be invasive and take over the lo'i and choke all the rest of the taro. The science today, we as practitioners need to malama [take care], to have them sit down with us and tell us, what is their intention. What are they trying to do when they hybridize a certain variety of taro? The quest for the super taro, the taro that will grow in every environment, in every situation, is a myth. The varieties we have that our ancestors passed us, down to us, is extreme. When I say extreme, kalo paua, the only one that can grow in the desert of Ka'u." Mahalo, Uncle Jerry! 🙏

I see FOOD. Rich in nutrients. Thank you for sharing. Maoli

Love you guys Vandana and you doing lovely job

much respect to you

Petani yang sangat luar biasa , semoga sukses .... Salam kenal dari Indonesia

Very cool!

I would like to learn more from him, reminds me of my kupuna

love this video

So much truth, many thanks

jerry could you please do a documentry on how to start a pond to plant kalo.

One thing I love about my taro, is that my cows and goats don't eat it. So if I want to live off the land, I can live on milk and taro. I LOVE steamed Taro with butter or steamed Ulu with butter.... Taro is the one plant that my cows leave alone...thank God

Your land has already spoken amongst beautiful night blue water

Uncle Jerry, Awesome video, I was given a Taro Big "trunking" stump as a root last year, kept in basement over winter. The stump weighed a ton, I'm thinking maybe Giant version? I put it out late, but it is growing like crazy.

Rest in Love Anakala Jerry...

great video.done support.

Wisdom beyond measure.

“A potato is a potato” is an example of how English and other western languages have dumbed down our understanding of the world by blind labelling. Unlike noun based languages, Other languages are context sensitive. Indigenous languages don’t do that, they give specificity, context and relationship. “You open yourself to listen. . .” That is what we are missing, what we need to do to learn our place and survive.

Mahalo nui loa!

Jerry, I discovered a little spring close to our house in Kaneohe. I cleared all the bushes and so I am going to try my hand at growing taro. I noticed there were mystery snails in the water. Are they ok to have with taro?

Mahalo!

To bless

Is there a particular type of Taro can grow on the wet land

you know if they got together and did a CSA system they could plant that way just saying..

This is alsome information to take in🙏🏽 and latest updates?

Kalo / Taro is common type of vegetable in the Philippines

We come to be used by the right brain.

Good afertoon ,have you any plant of Blue Java banana for sale?

Where can we get the Pololu?

Mr. Jerry, I found my way to your video because of a root for sale in my market. Little did I know what I would learn from you. The plant that we call elephant ears and can’t seem to get rid of is food. How can I find out what types that I have. Names and story’s. We seem to have four or five different ones were I live and many that live in marshs that grow here in Louisiana. Your video was so well done thank you for your time in making it. I would very much like to send you some photos of the different types I come across. Peter Ward.

Es necesario sumergirlo en agua

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One time I tasted a taro from the market and it tasted like soap or chemicals... so yuck.... Is that from the water they are giving the taro? it was soapy all the way inside.. maybe thwy were using chlorine water or something?

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Kia orana from nz