(emily tkel) it's our main food, with fish. fish and taro go together, and that's our main dish, as palauan people. - and it's been growing here, and harvested, for ages. has it always been this way for women? - yes. it's been this way for generations and generations. women go to the taro patch; men go out fishing. that's why we don't allow men to go to the taro patch; they get fined for that. that's the way we like it, and we keep it that way. (kauderael bintorio-keane) there's a saying in palaun, that the taro patch is the mother of life. at the end of the day, women go to the taro, and that's going to feed you. the taro patch, way back, the mothers used to use it as a school for their girls. this is where they go to pass down the traditions, and teach their daughters the customs, the responsibilities as a woman, and that's how the tradition really passed down, because that's where we really learned a lot from them. (sophie fouron) okay, i'm very curious, because, first of all, how do you know it's ready? (remurang renguul) w