Hi Hazel,
Hawaiians planted bananas in large patches for the entire village.
Both men & women worked. The entire community would often be involved in netting fish. Men did most of the cooking. Women made kapa (fabric), often for trade.
It was the royals ('ali'i) who had a life of leisure, although King Kamehameha was renowned for working his own taro (kalo) patch.
Korean Natural Farming has been popular in the Islands as a "new" method of farming, which involves feeding plants with mulches and compost produced right on the land with nothing brought in. It is comical for the older folks, as that is what folks have been doing forever, before the chemical industry.
