Mahi Pono held a blessing on Friday to mark the start of planting red and yellow potatoes on about 40 acres of the more than 41,000 acres of former sugar cane land on Maui that the company bought from Alexander & Baldwin for $262 million last year.
The crop is expected to be ready for harvest in three months.
“Today marks Mahi Pono’s first major step in returning the land to active agriculture production, increasing local food production and helping to achieve food security for Maui, and our…
