Mar 28, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
I’ve been enjoying refreshing bamboo landscapes and renewable bamboo products for decades. So what took me so long to discover Chocolate Bamboo? After all, it combines two of my favorite things in the world. But Borinda fungosa is not high on the list of popular...
Mar 21, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
We know that bamboo has a vast range of uses and applications, in industry, reforestry, and beyond. And we can debate whether there are 1,200 or 1,400 or 1,600 distinct species and varieties of bamboo. People have been growing, eating and building with bamboo for...
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...
Feb 14, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry
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...
Feb 11, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products
You needn’t look far to observe bamboo’s enormous versatility, in everything from cutting boards and building materials to biofuel and bedsheets. Easily overlooked, bamboo charcoal is something of a byproduct, but it has a whole host of useful...
