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Kimeona Kane works with the Waimānalo Limu Hui to organize monthly community work days to help rebuild the stone walls of the pond and encourage the growth of limu patches in the bay.
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The Conversation spent the morning with the hui as volunteers learned about how to make limu lei. It begins with pounding lauhala to make cordage. We spoke with Ikaika Rogerson, head of the hui, at Kaiona Beach.
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Hawai‘i Pacific University has a federal grant for research on seaweed, or limu, that could potentially lead to commercial-scale cultivation. Shaun Moss, the executive director of HPU’s Oceanic Institute, says the research’s goal is to assess whether various types of limu can be used to clean up effluent from shrimp and fish farms around the state.
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It’s been six months since the state designated 2022 as the year of the limu. HPR’s Jayna Omaye updates us on what’s been happening and what’s coming up.
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The botany and earth science departments at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been researching native limu. HPR’s Zoe Dym spoke with the researchers to learn more about the relationship between pristine water and native plants.
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Community groups dedicated to restoring limu, or seaweed, along Hawai?i’s shorelines are hoping they haven’t missed the window of opportunity to designate…
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About a hundred varieties of Hawaiian seaweed or limu exist. Limu played an important part in the ancient Hawaiian diet – third only to fish and poi as a…
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The generations-old tradition of seaweed cultivation in Hawai?i is making a comeback. Seaweed or limu is an important part of the traditional Hawaiian…