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Meet The New Wood

Beside being the fastest growing woody on the planet bamboo offers a viable replacement for wood. With stalks that can grow to be as large as 60 meters, and playing a critical role in balancing the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Bamboo is one tree to be reckon with. Functioning as a critical part of the economy in eastern Asia, and providing homes for over 2.2 billion people worldwide Bamboo has aslo been praised for its uses as an artistic medium.

As a high-yield natural resource that can be selectively harvest annually bamboo is an ideal choice for many different uses including:

• Serving as a viable replacement for wood
• Meeting the nutritional demands of millions of people
• Landscaping your home or business
• As a form of holistic medicine
• An artistic medium with unique, and useful characteristics

Below we will explore the many uses of bamboo, and hope to inspire you with unique and interesting ways you can include this “green” plant in your life!

Bamboo as a Viable Replacement for Wood

Bamboo is one of the strongest building materials know to man with a tensile strength reaching 28,000 lbs per square inch while steel only has a tensile strength of 23,000 lbs per square inch. Its short growth cycle of only 2 years, and diverse group of over 1000 species make bamboo suitable for virtually any environment.

Bamboo As a Food Source

Bamboo shoots met the nutritional needs of millions of people throughout the world daily. The country of Taiwan alone consumes over 80,000 tons of bamboo shoots annually fostering a $50 million dollar industry. With over 100 species growing throughout Asia these people would have no problem completing the 100 mile diet. The pulverized bark shoots have been long praised by the Japanese for their antioxidant properties which prevent bacterial growth, and also function as a natural food preservative.

Bamboo In Your Yard

Bamboo makes for an excellent choice for a landscape design element. Providing shade, a wind barrier, and aesthetic beauty bamboo will compliment your new green lawn thanks to that fertilizer you made with left-over beer.

Bamboo As a Medicine

Bamboo has been used for centuries in Ayurveda, and Chinese acupuncture. The hardened powered secretions from bamboo can be used to treat asthma, coughs, and a declining sexual appetite. In China the roots of black bamboo are used to treat kidney disease as well as venereal diseases, and even cancer! The sap is sad to reduce a fever while the ash is sad to cure heat strokes. I wonder if it can cure a hangover?

Bamboo As an Art

Integrally involved in culture, and the arts for thousands of years Bamboo’s mystical qualities as well as its strength, and flexibility make it an ideal medium for any artist. Dating back to the 2nd century historical records were written on bamboo strips strung together in a bundle with silk thread.

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