Nov 25, 2021 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Renewable Energy
NOTE: This article about bamboo cars first appeared in 2008. The story was revised in 2021. Is there anything bamboo cannot do? Perhaps, but as Fred Hornaday likes to say: “If it can’t be done with bamboo, it probably shouldn’t be done.”...
Nov 2, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
NOTE: This article originally appeared on May 3, 2007, last updated on July 7, 2023. A new variety of native North American bamboo was discovered this year (March 2007) by botanists in North Carolina. Hill Cane is the third known variety of this bamboo genus endemic...
Mar 21, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Green Living
Every serious gardener knows that the compost pile is one of the most important features of their backyard ecosystem. It’s where we discard our kitchen scraps, our lawn trimming, and other organic detritus. Moreover, it’s where the cycle of life comes full...
Aug 24, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
Growing bamboo in California is a cinch. It’s something of a gardener’s paradise, with mild winters and abundant sunshine. So long as you have a reliable water supply, you can grow just about anything. But Canada is a different story. Even so, there are a...
Nov 2, 2019 | Bambu Batu, Eastern Philosophy, Natural Healing
When we grapple to understand life’s most puzzling mysteries, we can often look to nature to find the basic patterns that illustrate the most complex aspects of human behavior and psychological development. As we’ve demonstrated elsewhere in this blog,...
