The shaded Lahaina square where tourists once milled beneath the town’s famed banyan tree has become the domain of volunteer papaya, tomato and lilikoi sprouts. “We know what the birds are eating,” Maui County Arborist Timothy Griffith said Wednesday morning after ducking under a yellow rope lining the sidewalk along Front Street. The impromptu garden … Continue reading Hopes rise by survival of Lahaina’s banyan tree