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Bamboo Flour: Going against the grain

Bamboo Flour: Going against the grain

Sep 12, 2023 | Bamboo Products, Health & Nutrition

Just when I thought I’d seen every possible product made from bamboo, my friend tells me about bamboo spaghetti. Excusez-moi? That’s right, they’re making pasta from bamboo flour. Wait a minute… I’m still trying to wrap my head around...
Remembering the House of Bamboo: A pictorial history

Remembering the House of Bamboo: A pictorial history

Aug 31, 2023 | Bamboo Products, Bambu Batu, San Luis Obispo

Incredible, indelible and infectious: just a few words to describe the year 2020. Among other seminal events, Bambu Batu permanently closed the doors of its brick-and-mortar store in downtown San Luis Obispo. But with a sliver of 20-20 hindsight, and a safe distance...
Bamboo and Biochar in Thailand

Bamboo and Biochar in Thailand

Aug 28, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products

It’s no secret that I love bamboo. I think I’ve enjoyed it all my life. Besides being a personal pleasure, it’s also been my professional business for about two decades. And some of the only things I love more than bamboo are the people I meet when...
11 Best Books about Bamboo: For a Growing Library

11 Best Books about Bamboo: For a Growing Library

Jun 9, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products

Bamboo literature for your library or coffee table Here at Bambu Batu, we’re just crazy about bamboo. Perhaps you knew that by now. We grow it, we wear it, we eat it, and we read about it. As one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history, you can believe there...
Dwarf Bamboos and Groundcovers

Dwarf Bamboos and Groundcovers

May 10, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species

We usually think of bamboo as a giant grass, the fastest-growing plant on earth. And that it is. But there are also dwarf bamboo varieties that make for excellent ground cover, borders and accent pieces. In the Amazonian undergrowth, you can actually find bamboo that...
Bamboo and carbon sequestration: Saved by net zero

Bamboo and carbon sequestration: Saved by net zero

Apr 14, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Green Living

Bamboo proponents the world over have touted the plant as a miracle cure for climate change and global warming. Bamboo’s purported capacity for carbon sequestration is one of the most important factors that makes the plant so important in the effort to save the...
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