You can make an infinite amount of things with bamboo canes

A bamboo cane lives for about 8-10 years. As they age, their vigor lessons, and fewer leaves will releaf in the spring, the canes will turn yellow in contrast to the new culms being mint green. When you see those culms age, remove them by cuting them a the ground level with a pruning saw or some strong lopper pruning shears.

Now you can make all kinds of fun stuff with you bamboo canes. I recommend you to Google "bamboo crafts" in image search mode. If you like to work with your hands and have some imagination, you can really have fun harvesting your older bamboo canes. One of my dreams came true when we were able to harvest enough timber bamboo to make our 30 foot bamboo tower that marks our entrance. Assembling it was quite an adventure.

Grow some bamboo, you'll enjoy every phase, as a unique landscape plant, for food in a great stir fry and later for crafts. We dont waste any part at our farm. When we clean our groves of the older canes, we make bamboo mulch by chipping what we cant use as bamboo sticks. Our bamboo mulch then goes right back to feeding the new bamboo! We sell a wide assortment of bamboo sticks, come by if you want to build something right away.

College Senior Project

A Mechanical Engineering student from Califronia Polytechnic State University made a bike from our vivax bamboo for his senior project. By the way he got a solid A. This was a great bike, incredibly light, but strong. It was truly a pleasure getting to ride this bike.

All the joints were done with hemp fiber and a clear epoxy. The were very strong. I was truly impressed by Blair's design and craftsmanship.

An Easy to Make Tool

With a bit of ingenuity, we crafted a very handy bottle opener that you will sure enjoy to use and never lose! Just a bit of putty epoxy to hold the metal opener very firm. My next bamboo project is a wine cork puller. These make great unique gifts, that are very easy to make. Nothing like giving a hand made gift that you also grew!.