DENNIS ODA / STAR-BULLETIN
Gardens that the different ethnic populations grew during the plantation days in Hawaii are at the Hawaii Plantation Village in Waipahu. Clifford Wong and his wife, Lee, walked in the taro patch Tuesday. They were there taking out weeds and snails that eat the taro and water chestnuts that were growing there.
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