Mar 9, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Native to northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal, Melocanna baccifera is an exotic bamboo species you won’t find at your local nursery. In tropical, Asian climates, this bamboo is widely admired as an attractive ornamental and a highly effective means of...
Mar 7, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening
Bamboo is an astonishing plant with nearly unlimited potential. Its towering culms can stretch to unthinkable heights. The poles can sway in the breeze and knock hypnotically. The graceful leaves and majestic stature even rival the magnificence of an Asian temple. But...
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...