Introducing Taro aka Cocoyam with Michael Carter (a Utopian Seed Project Meet-the-Plant series)
Channel: Utopian Seed Project
Date: 2020-06-18

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) aka Cocoyam is a tropical perennial that we can grow in North Carolina as a temperate annual (with some cultivars showing potential as die back perennials). Taro produces edible eddoes underground and edible leaves above ground. NOTE: all parts of taro need to be cooked to break down the calcium oxalates present in all parts of taro.


This video is part of a The Utopian Seed Project series called, Meet-the-Plant, where plant experts introduce you to less known plants (in North Carolina) that have food production potential.


In this video, Michael Carter, of Carter Farms (a Virginia Century farm), gives a cultural perspective on growing and eating taro based on his time living in Ghana, where taro leaf is eaten as a primary green and called Nkontomire.


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