HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A garden of giving is thriving in Pearl City.

You may not notice it if you’re zipping by on the H1, but just below the freeway is a piece of land where gardening and generosity are thriving.

Just name it and they’ve probably grown it at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa‘s Urban Garden Center. Everything from corn to kalo.

“We try to select varieties that are more adapted for Hawaii and we do trials to evaluate these varieties,” said Jensen Uyeda, a county extension agent with the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience. “One of the things I was looking for is to see which ones are more heat tolerant.”

Uyeda’s field trials help farmers grow beds filled with bounty and his research is flourishing.

“I’m learning we can grow a really good cabbage a

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