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To be a bamboo farmer, you need both to create your market and to use the bamboo on your farm. On your farm, use your bamboo for fodder, erosion control, windbreaks, shading-and-cooling, and for chips. Sell your shoots to a high end restaurant, at farmers’ markets, or …
Why Bamboo? - Bamboo Farming USA
Plant bamboo to catch runoff from farm operations. Protect ditches, streams and farm ponds with a bamboo buffer. To save out planet, we must store water in soil. Water vapor from forests (trees and bamboo) pulls moisture from the oceans into our continents. Trees and bamboo create rain.
How To Plant - Bamboo Farming USA
When you plant the bamboo, you will immediately need A LOT of mulch. The mulch suppresses weed seeds. Young bamboo cannot compete with weeds, grasses, vines, and young trees. Mulch protects the soil from overheating and drying out. It creates habitat for …
Shooting Schedules - Bamboo Farming USA
If you plan to sell fresh bamboo shoots, this chart will help you decide which varieties to plant. 1. Do you want all your shoots at the same 10 day period or do you want to spread harvest and sales over two months?
Recipes - Bamboo Farming USA
Let’s collect bamboo recipes on this page. Send your recipes to [email protected] or [email protected] . My cooking of bamboo shoots is simple. I peel off the culm leaves. I slice the shoot to create decorative shapes. (rounds? ovals? combs? chunks?)
Poles - Bamboo Farming USA
The poles are clean, straight, uniform in size, smooth, cheap and bundled impeccably. You can order different lengths and different diameters. Bamboo nurseries make much of their income by installing and maintaining bamboo hedges for one customer, and, by …
Cooking Bamboo Shoots - Bamboo Farming USA
Bamboo shoots remain crisp after cooking. They absorb the flavor of what they are cooked with. They are a white vegetable that adds pattern and crunch to braised type dishes, soups, and stir fries.
Daphne's Farm - Bamboo Farming USA
Phylostachys Dulcis because it is called both Sweet Shoot Bamboo and Vegetable Bamboo. Frank Meyer introduced Dulcis in 1908 from Zhejiang Province, China. He described it as “the edible bamboo grown in nearly every backyard in Central China”.
Cured Large Poles - Bamboo Farming USA
Vivax poles of various lengths and diameters. Some have been flamed. Most have not. All must go to make space for new ones.Only $100 for entire lot, must be picked up. Email [email protected] with questions.
Moso - Bamboo Farming USA
It took that long for the soil to reach 58°F!! A cold spring delayed harvest and reduced yields in nine out of ten research plots (praecox, henon (2 locations), houzeau, Robert Young (2 locations), dulcis, Bory, golden vivax, bambusoides). Moso yield was 320 pounds.