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.

[@vladyslavlishchuk74]

My structures professor (Architecture and Building Engineering in Vancouver) is very excited about this project. He is certain that bamboo trusses and joists are at least the same strength as regular lumber, for less material. Curved glulam beams require a lot of pressure to be put together, while bamboo apparently doesn't. A tree grows for 60 years, bamboo matures just in 4. So far the market for bamboo is just arhitectural - flooring, decorations, paper, etc. Let's promote research of bamboo for structural uses!

[@laylalildogwithabigheart2311]

We bought a literal bamboo jungle in Arkansas 😮 Lots of giant species - Moso one of them. We also have lots of decorative hedge type bamboo ! The man who originally planted the bamboo ran a nursery and specialized in bamboo 😊

[@hugogeussens]

with bamboo and mushrooms our society will survive

[@1955thekeeper]

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

[@TheSynthZone]

This is a great way to start again in a clear cut countryside. Go green!

[@TheRevering]

Van Jones?!! Please....

[@rawmark]

This video makes me want to start a bamboo farm in Southern Nevada. :)

[@PsychicDogTalkRadio3]

this is a really worthwhile project. i want to start my own permaculture project and plan to grow bamboo too.

[@bluetoad2001]

I've grown Yellow Groove in north Missouri for thirty years, what you say is true, not much of an bamboo economy yet. Wish I could get a strain of Moso to grow here. Thanks for posting

[@wannabesomethingmore]

I want some!!!! We live in Cove, Arkansas and planted several varieties of bamboo back in 2010.

[@stevem.dujmovjr.765]

Maybe you already know... maybe not? Bamboo can be very difficult to contain.

[@wannabesomethingmore]

Steve M. Dujmov Jr. Hi Steve! Yes we know. Our soil is more clay with sand stone under that. The runners aren't spreading very fast because of it. It's planted in the middle of some of our pasture away from our goats. If is does get a chance to spread, it will be feed as fodder to the goats. The kudzu on my sons land is more of a problem than the bamboo will be for us. Although, our variety of Vivax and the kudzu are at least edible for both us and the goats.

[@stevem.dujmovjr.765]

Yes, bamboo sprouts are delicious. I'm not sure what kind of nutrients it provides though.... hmm... I'll have to Google it ;-)

[@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

[@dracokaiser]

The moso bamboo needs to be grown in Bloomington Indiana!!! The deforestation has gotten out of control!!!

[@LegendaryBrowser]

I grow Moso in Fl.3"culms this year.I too want to make it a profitable farming project on my 21 acres

[@robertperspective3168]

Hi I'm also interested in the growth and education about bamboo. The thing is I'm living in Jamaica.

[@TheGeordieClan]

We have been trying to get rid of our bamboo. It was here when we moved to Oregon 4trs ago. Never thought we could make some money out of it.

[@nicepandas]

I really like bamboo. I have grown some from seed myself and it is still so small after a few years. Myabe a foot tall.

[@mikefisher1629]

I have some Moso growing in my backyard in Salem, Oregon. Planted from seed about 20 years ago.

[@kayoualorkyl]

That would be interest to see! You got fb or KZbin video of your bamboo?

[@LegendaryBrowser]

I have a grove 40 years old

[@alohapizza1]

You can definitely start a grove in Texas. Many tropical clumping species grow well there.

[@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

[@1rstjames]

I relate💯💯💯💯💯

[@RogueCrockett]

This and hemp would save us from our government and corporations by sprouting cottage industry everywhere it would be glorious XD

[@khojartacademy6339]

I have already done it here in India...its amazing

[@realdeal5712]

Alot of profit?

[@LukeStauss]

beautifully inspiring, and i am aspiring to doing the same thing in oklahoma.

[@fuzzy927]

The only problem I see considering the age of the Moso....... it is just a question of time till it will flower soon.

[@Pogohontas.]

Yes!

[@artmonkey4047]

thats some goood grass

[@user-be4yc2vr5c]

Do ya'll sell any in CO or have a place near it(I'd drive across a state for the right price)? I need some 6' lengths hollowed out of the widest ya got. Trying to build all natural grow towers but sourcing big bamboo in CO has been impossible.

[@gophomaxx]

Bamboo is very useful and should be grown more often. Is there a market for harvested bamboo?

[@eustatic3832]

very cool. I enjoyed the shout to Van Jones.

[@davidschmidt270]

I'm trying to find a video on growing bamboo for the wood....so I can use it for like raised garden beds and stuff like that....can anyone help me please???.... Because buying untreated wood from home Depot is just not an option for me

[@osvaldoruiz3826]

Van Jones and hard work for profits dont go in the same sentence

[@emilyrandall9968]

I found a bamboo plant recently its not the lucky variety it's the shade because it was growing outside. My question is can I repot it as a house plant? Thanks from NJ

[@dawnfkahamilton-doerfler6982]

We must copy this mans example of r Preparing for the future generations Today and next year etc. and if Bamboo takes one third the time as hardwoods to grow strong and tall for building materials we should have Forests in many states and Puerto Rico Or Hawaii

[@alohapizza1]

Not long if you grow from root stock as big as those in the video.

[@marceloazevedodesuzano2845]

👍👍👍

[@yangyin223]

Harvest Time

[@1969626]

Are there any updates?

[@timtrammell3971]

You lost me when you mentioned Marxist Van Jones

[@danhartnett3030]

It’s so old aren’t you worried it might go to seed😮

[@georgeman21222]

there is more than one video on the net let alone youtube and its not just about the videos either

[@Aussiemoo]

You should biochar the excess plant matter and plough it back into the soil.

[@labrya4]

They were mulching as part of the stand maintenance. There was likely a good amount of dead bamboo.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Is MacIlhenny the guy who marketed Tabasco sauce?

[@firozshah5928]

Hello 🌿I am very passionate about Bamboo cultivation and growing in different countries and different parts of the world🌿 I understand how bamboo uses in our Daily life, Farming, building houses, Different construction material and cultural participation in every part of our human Life that's why we need to grow more Bamboos🌱 besides I want to work to grow more Bamboo Globally to reduce CO2🌳 Hope we can work together in the Future, if there if any Possibility.....🌿 I need Fund and Partner who can work with us .... if you can help me

[@hassaan5809]

i wonder if you could buy bamboo from them to build a cabin.

[@DrZergling]

How is it going?

[@VoiceOfReason1999]

how long does it take to get big bamboo like that?

[@MsTokies]

has it gone to seed before?

[@jaegerdogg]

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

[@MrShoebop]

Why were they shredding the bamboo trees? Or did I miss something?

[@fruitfullivingcostarica]

Likely chipping the top sections that were cut off to transport and removing dead or over mature culms and chipping.

[@brockanonce]

Is it expensive to grow Moso Bamboo?

[@sajidullah]

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

[@DrZergling]

So how i the project going today..??

[@sudipa54]

I wanna bamboo farm in Nepal how to do it ?

[@gurpreetsinghbala5663]

Buy plants baby from bihar, govt nursery in small qty then multiply them

[@LegendaryBrowser]

timberbamboonursery Moso specialists

[@wishmurderwaslegal]

how much does a bamboo stalk sell for? is this a lucrative business?

[@idarusskie]

f-n-kin van jones

[@doingeverything81]

Can I have some small plants through courier in India?

[@abhijeetshinde7142]

yes ..send me ur email id

[@kens6433]

Will this bamboo grow in Southern Idaho?

[@lawrencebeck4777]

Freezing temperatures will kill most bamboo varieties... so check your lowest temperatures and match that to the variety you'd like to plant. No sense in going through ll the work only to lose your crop in the first freeze.

[@jeremyprince4945]

so what's going on with bamboo revolution now?

[@flat6fever680]

Lol

[@tdub694201]

1 video,,,,,,not much of a revolution.....

[@SavageHenry762]

they lost me at the flat 1 world economy and van jones communist bullshit.

[@magicdaveable]

Funny that a couple of commenters focus on a reference to Van Jones rather than the bigger picture of the economic viability of propagating Timber Bamboo in the US. Such displays only serve to demonstrate abject ignorance. This video presents forward thinking that is both economically and environmentally sound. Personally the mention of Van Jones is insignificant and suggesting that said mention negates interest only serves to reveal ignorance.

[@flat6fever680]

Bamboo is the devils plant.