Mar 18, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry
To encourage the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the carbon credit trading system incentivizes farmers and industrialists to initiate and operate carbon-negative projects, rewarding them with monetarily valuable credits. At the same time, polluting...
Mar 15, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Genuinely majestic, Gigantocalamus malpenensis is a natural, intergeneric hybrid, a cross between Gigantochloa scortechinii and Dendrocalamus pendulus, found only in the forested hills of the Malaysian peninsula. Gigantocalamus malpenensis with its furry culm...
Mar 13, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
So you’re in love with bamboo, and you just can’t get enough of it? Welcome to the club. My name is Fred and I’m a bambooholic. That’s right. Without my regular fix of noble bamboo grasses, I get terribly wound up. When the monotony of ordinary...
Mar 11, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening
If a little bit of bamboo is good, then a little more bamboo must be even better. So, when you’re growing bamboo, it’s natural to want to increase your numbers by propagating more plants. Maybe you have an unusually attractive species, and you want more of...
Mar 8, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Green Living
When looking for bamboo, your first instinct is probably not to head for the hills. But there is a surprising variety of bamboo native to the mountains of both Africa and Asia. As the name should tell you, the genus Himalayacalamus comes from the same great mountain...
Feb 28, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Worldwide
There are close to 2,000 known varieties of bamboo, native to Asia, Africa, the Americas, and even Australia. That makes Europe the only habitable continent with no endemic species of this prolific grass. But the region certainly has its share of bamboo enthusiasts....