Ahu’ena Heiau Inc. and a group of Maui volunteers spent Saturday stripping 40,000 sugar cane leaves to ship to Kona, where they’ll be used to help restore an ancient hale that served as ...

Sugar cane is the Burdekin's primary industry adding more than $425 million a year to the region's economy. The spectacular cane fires are also a tourism drawcard.

The leaves develop on opposite sides of the cane, as do the buds. The pieces should be positioned in soil about 6 inches deep. Plant deeper in sandy conditions.

The dry sugar cane leaves that once went up in smoke now form a protective blanket on the fields, enriching the soil. Some of these leaves, commonly called straw in Brazil, are also collected to ...

WAILUKU >> A Hawaii nonprofit group that helps preserve and maintain ancient Hawaiian structures has found a use for Puunene Mill’s leftover sugar cane that dots the Maui landscape.

If planting in the ground, consider sugar cane’s dramatic height of up to 8 feet and spread of 4 feet. It grows in clumps similar to bamboo. Water frequently to establish, then less often on a ...

Florida's largest sugar companies say cane burning is safe, but one nation, ... which leaves swaths of rural America with little to no oversight. Using their own air monitoring, ...