Jul 24, 2019 | Agriculture & Gardening
As longtime advocated of bamboo, we’ve written at great length about the countless virtues of this amazing grass. It’s a plant of unsurpassed strength and versatility, with an incredibly rich and colorful cultural history. Check out our articles on...
Jul 16, 2019 | Agriculture & Gardening
As a matter of fact, bamboo is neither a tree nor a bush. Bamboo is a grass, belonging to the family Poaceae, sometimes called Gramineae. The same botanical family comprises some 12,000 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants, including cereals and grains, as...
Jun 20, 2019 | Agriculture & Gardening
Bamboo has many amazing characteristics. And the woody grass has a reputation for being the fastest-growing plant on earth. That reputation is well-deserved because some varieties of bamboo can grow more than a meter a day, under ideal circumstances. NOTE: This...
Jun 3, 2019 | Hemp Products, Natural Fibers
After nearly a century of prohibition, new hemp laws are finally sweeping across the nation. In 1937, the federal government passed the Marihuana Tax Act, effectively banning the cultivation and use of both industrial hemp and marijuana. Highly regulated hemp farming...
Apr 30, 2019 | Bamboo Products, Green Living, Natural Fibers
What are we supposed to think when something that’s been around for five thousand years suddenly turns trendy? Yoga reaches the West, and it’s like something brand new. The paleo diet gets resurrected from the ice age, and it’s the culinary panacea....
