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Best Bamboo Bedding for quality and price
The average person spends about one third of their life in bed. That's around 20 to 30 years in most cases. But I'm not suggesting that you are an average person. Like most of our readers, you're probably very well-informed and have exceptionally good taste. Which is...
Exotic Bamboo Wildlife: Bamboo sharks
Bamboo is a woody grass with more than 1,400 species growing naturally on five continents. It has been flourishing in a wide range of habitats since the late Cretaceous period, roughly 100-66 million years ago. So that makes bamboo as old as the dinosaurs. Only a few...
Dig a trench for a bamboo barrier
When it comes to growing bamboo, one of the chief concerns is how to contain or control it. Bamboo has a reputation for being unusually fast-spreading and difficult to remove. In fact, this is only true for certain species of bamboo. But if you plant a type of running...
Bamboo as a pioneer species
Thanks to its strength, resilience and versatility, bamboo has earned a reputation as one of the world's most remarkable resources. It seems there's almost nothing bamboo can't do. You can eat it, you can wear it, you can build a house and you can fuel a car with it....
Bamboo Tribes: The classification of woody grasses
When you hear the phrase "bamboo tribe", you might picture some long-haired, freaky people sitting around a bonfire playing African drums and didgeridoos. Or you might imagine an even more tasteless case of cultural appropriation, full of bows and arrows and tipis...
Learning to build with bamboo: Bamboo U
Bamboo is an amazing material to work with. It has a strength-to-weight ratio superior to steel, meaning that it's super strong yet remarkably lightweight. The round, hollow poles make bamboo attractive and versatile for things like bike frames and rain gutters. And...