Mar 25, 2024 | Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species
The remarkable strength of bamboo has long invited comparisons to more industrial materials like iron and steel. And while certain more graceful and whispy varieties take on names like Seabreeze, Buddha Belly, and Umbrella Bamboo, a handful of the most formidable...
Nov 27, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Bambu Batu
As a bamboo lover, habitual traveler, and digital nomad, there are few things I enjoy more than a long journey to an exotic bamboo grove. Travel restrictions related to COVID made these excursions pretty difficult for a while, but not impossible. In 2022 I had the...
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...
May 21, 2020 | Bambu Batu, San Luis Obispo
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world in more ways than we can even comprehend at this point, globally, locally, financially and psychologically. Here in San Luis Obispo, we can expect to see some dramatic alterations to the landscape of our charming downtown....
Mar 28, 2020 | Bambu Batu, San Luis Obispo
If you’d told me 14 years ago, when Bambu Batu first opened, that I’d end up here — in the midst of a global pandemic, frantically trying to liquidate my inventory in order to close the shop and get back to my wife and kids, who were living overseas in the...
