I love Bamboo; growing, eating, crafting, building, and listening to the sounds of creaking culms and rustling leaves in the wind. It provides me with microclimates, windbreaks, privacy screens, animal fodder, wildlife habitat, an endless supply of mulch, delicious tender eating shoots, an abundance of materials for the garden and building small structures, and sequesters …
PCA is excited to offer limited places for our new masterclass internship program: The two specialist 11-week masterclass internships will commence August 16, 2016 at Djanbung Gardens, one in all aspects of food production Garden-to-Table, and the other in Bamboo, Natural Building and Landscaping. These internships involve 25-30 hours per week structured workplace and classroom …
Ever gone to the effort of harvesting and making beautiful things with bamboo just to see it crumble away with a borer insect infestation? Many great building and crafting bamboo varieties are exceptionally vulnerable to being eaten out by the Powder Post Beetle (Powder Borer) or Bamboo Weevil after harvest and drying. When I first …
Djanbung Gardens and Bamboo In Asia bamboo is a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity and endurance and for a world subject to climate change and an onslaught of natural disasters including a crisis of forest loss it could become a major remedy.
Next annual Bamboo Workshop at Djanbung Gardens: Oct 12-14, 2011 Don’t miss this great hands-on workshop learning about growing, crafting and building with this amazing material Some interesting Bamboo facts… Bamboo is the most renewable building resource on Earth. Bamboo is also the fastest growing plant on Earth. It puts out more biomass per acre …
