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When you grow bamboo commercially and make your own cutting boards from harvested culms, the finish matters more than most people realize. I learned that the hard way. Getting the right mineral oil bamboo cutting board finish is genuinely the…
If you’ve ever tried to split bamboo culms by hand with a machete, you already know the problem. You end up with strips that wander, splits that blow out the node walls, and fingers that are uncomfortably close to a…
Last spring, I decided to build a freestanding bamboo trellis for a section of climbing roses along my back fence. Simple enough project — except I had about sixty culms to cut, trim, and notch to length. My old crosscut…
Last spring, my tomato garden was an absolute disaster. Three weeks after transplanting, my Beefsteak and Roma plants were already flopping sideways. The wire cages I had relied on for years had rusted through over winter. I needed a replacement…
Three winters ago, I had a patio full of cracked, faded plastic pots and a serious case of plant parent guilt. Every spring, I’d drag out whatever survived — usually not much — and start over. I’d been searching for…
Last spring, I decided to build a small bamboo shade structure in my backyard. I had plenty of poles from a culm harvest the previous fall, and I was tired of watching them sit in a pile. My problem was…
If you’ve ever pulled a sad, waterlogged dumpling out of a pot, you know the feeling. That was me, every single Sunday, for about three years. I’d been attempting homemade dim sum for a while, and my results were consistently…