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Melocanna baccifera: Tropical bamboo for erosion
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...
Pruning bamboo: Restore your grass’s grandeur
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...
Rutiz Farms: Organic produce changes hands in SLO County
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...
What is strand woven bamboo?
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 days, some...
INBAR: The international bamboo and rattan organisation
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 endorsing...
Challenges and pitfalls of bamboo farming
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 also...