Kalo grows in the Kula land which are plains and fields. They are flat, sloping lands between the uka and the kai. There are over three hundred different varieties of kalo, some are good for making poi or and others are better for medicine. There were also wet taro and dry taro. Kalo was one of the Hawaiian's most important food, and they had them in almost every meal.

The word 'Ohana (a family)comes from the very important plant kalo. Kalo is so important that they named the members of the Hawaiian families, come from those names the parts of the kalo plant. A parent like the parent of the kalo plant is a makua. The child like the off root of the kalo plant is an oha. This forms an ohana. Men were the mahiai, planters. They worked in the fields planting and harvesting the kalo. The men would use their 'o'o to dig and harvest not only kalo but other things, too.