Bamboo Revolution & Bamboo Valley Begin Growing Bamboo for Timber Harvest

Bamboo Revolution, in partnership with Bamboo Valley, have taken the first crucial steps towards creating a timber bamboo industry based in Oregon. In 2009, they transplanted live Moso bamboo plants to Oregon from Louisiana. In early 2011, another trip was made adding to the current stock, now growing in Albany, Oregon.

Over the past two years, Bamboo Revolution and Bamboo Valley built a relationship with Andy Ringle of Avery Island, La., home of Tabasco® pepper sauce. His family holds a lease on one of the oldest timber bamboo groves in America. Planted in 1910 by former Tabasco president E. A. McIlhenny, in cooperation with the USDA, this grove represented, at the time, an initial step toward the establishment of a bamboo industry in this country. However, with McIlhenny's death in 1949 this potential remained largely unrealized, and many of the bamboo groves that McIlhenny planted on Avery Island were left unmanaged and fell into neglect.




In October 2009, 10 Bamboo Revolution employees and Dain Sansome of Bamboo Valley traveled to Louisiana to help restore the bamboo groves. In return, they received permission to transplant live plants to Bamboo Revolution's cooperative farm with Bamboo Valley, an established bamboo farm in Albany, Ore.

Bamboo can be harvested after just four to six years of growth, whereas comparable wood species take 30-60 years to reach harvestable maturity. The harvested material is manufactured into panels, veneer, flooring, countertops, and other building materials.

Developing a bamboo industry within the United States will reduce the distance the materials are transported, sequester carbon, and create jobs for industries and communities hit hard by the changing economy.

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[CustomCarpentryUK]

You are doing a great thing there, you are so lucky in the US to have so much land, that will save you in the end, because there is nothing ultimately more valuable than land when all the banks have gone down!

I wish you the best of luck, I would love to keep in touch and learn more about what you are up to.

Tristan Titeux

[jaegerdogg]

Huh Huh, she said ballzy, Huh huh....Huh!

[sajidullah]

Can I start a grove in Texas ? on a small scale ?

[23ord]

See..

iamthewitness. c o m

[Rockonchick2]

we need more people to help save our planet but it time in usa i agree we all have a future so we must work with nature i have to say this is step in right direction it possibility to bring hope to many more counties need to have hope it earth it belong to our future generation i hope for the youger generation it deeply touch my heart n spirit passing this along earth n bamboo do create peaceful home for evryone

[minimonark]

So much better than the Bamboo I removed with a shovel, from my neighbors back yard several years ago! I lived in Portland for 15 years, and always saw bamboo growing around randomly there. the very thin bamboo that forms hedges. I imagined bamboo could grow well there, since the climate is so similair to East Asia. Was I right? maybe I wasn't such a dumb young man after all...Thanks for the amazing video and inspiration

[1955thekeeper]

The only way to describe what you folks are trying to accomplish in Oregon is AWESOME! Continued success with your endeavor.

[Bkk9S2]

well done, thumbs up!

[sinsarcasmo]

@YiuTeub I hear you. The cold planet of doom is nearing Earh for the showdown of the souls.

In that case, prepare and pray, my friend.

[YiuTeub]

@sinsarcasmo what about growing it when it hits -45 ?