Mar 4, 2022 | Green Living, Health & Nutrition, San Luis Obispo
Saturday, February 26, 2022 was a historic day in Halcyon, California. Since 2001, Jerry Rutiz had been farming a twenty-five-acre plot of land on the corner of Elm Street and the Pike, where Arroyo Grande becomes Oceano, in south San Luis Obispo County. But on this...
Feb 28, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products
Have you ever picked up a bamboo product and turned it over in your hand and wondered, “How did they do this?” If not, you must not be handling enough bamboo products. Some of them, like the bamboo socks and bamboo salad bowls, are just amazing. But these...
Feb 23, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Worldwide
When it comes to promoting bamboo, our small team does all it can to provide the highest-quality and most informative content on the interweb. We’ve been working in the bamboo world since 2006, but we obviously weren’t the first people to have the idea of...
Feb 14, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry
The hardest part about farming bamboo on a commercial scale, in the US or Europe, is that it’s not a native plant. No one has been growing bamboo in these regions at a large scale for any significant amount of time. Not only that, but these parts of the world...
Feb 11, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products
You needn’t look far to observe bamboo’s enormous versatility, in everything from cutting boards and building materials to biofuel and bedsheets. Easily overlooked, bamboo charcoal is something of a byproduct, but it has a whole host of useful...