An open-access journal documenting the evolution of kava in America: its science, cultivation, chemistry and cultural history.
Volumes 1–2 · 2026 / 7 articles
Exchange value is not money: sevusevu creates obligation where purchase extinguishes it. An applied anthropologist argues that there are kava cultures rather than one kava culture, and that commerce has often created culture rather than destroyed it.
Historical sensory descriptions of kava set against the reception histories of coffee and chocolate, with a proposed seven-family flavor framework and sensory wheel. 152 references.
Three runs of 96 tissue-culture-derived micro-cuttings: 96.2% rooted within 20 days, every rooted plant branched after a defined conditioning sequence, and second-generation cuttings rooted at 95.1% on a 60-day cycle.
A mass balance of every kavalactone across three American and one Papua New Guinea variety prepared with the Alu Bottle Shaker®, from fifteen HPLC-UV reports. About nine parts in ten of the kavalactone delivered travels on suspended particles.
Air layering of two American kava varieties across three seasonal replicates in an ambient outdoor nursery in South Florida, with layer-level rooting outcomes and a labor and materials accounting.
Short warm-water extraction transferred 85.1% of available kavalactone across three American-grown cultivars, with phase-resolved chemotypes. Analysis by Flora Research Laboratories.
Soft-stem cuttings of Kali-ISA and Kali-Hiwa rooted in peat cubes and an aeroponic cloner across two greenhouse runs; every root-positive cutting established in nursery pots.
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The journal publishes research articles, methods articles, monographs and essays on kava as citable articles of record. The American Kava Association publishes practical summaries and commentary separately at americankavaassociation.org.
