Under the hot morning sun on Kaua‘i’s West Side, farmer Kelsey Hesapene pulls a stalk of kō, or sugar cane, until he hears a sharp crack. He then uses a knife to separate the stalk from the rest of the plant. He’ll repeat this for each kō in his roughly 500-foot row. Harvested stalks will … Continue reading A New Era for West Kaua‘i’s Agriculture?