The continued story of Joseph Taketsugi Esaki's watermelon
In 1945, after years of experimentation on his Anahola, Kauai farm, Joseph Taketsugi Esaki (1919-2010) developed his own variety of watermelon - the Esaki. Basically, he did so by…
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