Dec 8, 2023 | Bamboo Products, Health & Nutrition
By now, most people understand that bamboo is an incredibly useful plant. And visitors to this website probably recognize it as a natural phenomenon. Bamboo can be made into a living fence, a super hard floor, a super soft pair of underwear, a delightfully sumptuous...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
