Discovering the Benefits of Bamboo
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Lipper 8825 Bamboo Cookbook Holder Sale Price: $14.50  |
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Practical as well as attractive, organization products from Lipper can be utilized throughout the house. These durable organizational tools are built to last and allow you to arrange your clothing, desk, linens and more, making every aspect of your life simpler. |
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Umbra Aquala Bamboo and Chrome Bathtub Caddy Sale Price: $39.95 |
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The Umbra Aquala Bathtub Caddy made of Natural Bamboo is a perfect way to take a bath! Relax for hours in the tub with a book, glass of wine and bubble bath as this bathtub caddy has a book support that folds away when not in use and a spot to slip in and hold your wine glass securely... |
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Eco Friendly Book Holder Bamboo Sale Price: $31.99 |
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That's right an eco friendly book holder. This is being responsible and finding a green material that will hold up just like a hardwood. This is doing it right. Plastic holders break and get throw away and where do they go? Landfills... |
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Lipper International Bamboo and Acrylic Cookbook Holder Sale Price: $19.20 |
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This beautiful Bamboo Wood Cookbook Holder by Lipper International is the most efficient way to follow a recipe. With its hardwood base and acrylic shield, this cookbook stand protects your cookbook from splatter and keeps the book open to the right page, allowing you to follow the recipe easily... |
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Joyce Chen 10-Inch Bamboo Steamer Set Sale Price: $14.99 |
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Joyce Chen opened her first restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1958. She found that the selection and quality of Chinese cookware in America didn't live up to her high standards… so she developed her own... |
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Folding Book Case - Bamboo (Bamboo) (53"H x 26"W x 12"D) Sale Price: $106.99 |
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The natural beauty of this folding bookcase makes it a unique addition to the home! This environmentally friendly bamboo book case is perfect for storage and display in any room of the home. Use it to hold linens and toiletries in the bathroom, books and photographs in the living room, or supplies in the office... |
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Helen Chen's Asian Kitchen Bamboo Sushi Mat with Paddle Sale Price: $2.60 |
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A fun tool for the adventuresome home chef, this sushi mat set from Helen's Asian Kitchen makes sushi rolls, also known as maki zushi. Sewn from slender but durable strands, the sushi mat rolls into a tidy cylinder to shape the rice, seaweed, veggies, and seafood that make up maki... |
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Norpro Deluxe 3-Piece Bamboo Steamer Set Sale Price: $14.14 |
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Norpro's three-piece bamboo steamer set could steam a whole meal. At 10 inches in diameter and 6-1/4 inches high, it is large enough for eight pork buns (there's a recipe on the box) on one level and a mound of broccoli, carrots, and snap peas on the other... |
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Hala Bamboo Cookbook Holder | NEW and Improved! Sale Price: $34.00 |
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Unique new bamboo recipe book holder with a new patent pending design protects your pages from cooking splatter. The book angle can be easily adjusted for comfortable reading and access during food preparation... |
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RSVP BOO-K Bamboo Knot Picks, 50 ct. Sale Price: $2.75 |
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The RSVP Bamboo Knot Picks are ideal for managing items at the buffet or on an appetizer tray. |
Very few people know the true power and versatility of bamboo. Once thought of as just another landscaping grass, bamboo is quickly becoming a great alternative to wood products. There are over 1,500 types of bamboo available, though just over two percent of those types are currently being used as a material.
The Asians have utilized bamboo for centuries, used in their food, their shelter, and their daily life. Ancient Asians used bamboo as a paper product, created homes and furniture with dried bamboo, and even used it in soups. Yet, bamboo can be used for some much more.
When dried and treated, bamboo is a very rigid wood, which can be used in flooring for homes. While at times expensive, bamboo is a great alternative because it can so quickly be replenished in nature. Bamboo can hold up in most any element, which is why it was so valuable to the ancient civilizations of Asia. It's durability and strength makes bamboo an excellent choice for building material.
Bamboo is often seen in construction due to its rigidity and core strength. It is no wonder that previous generations in America used dried bamboo stalks as fishing poles. The bamboo stalks were durable enough to hold when a fish was hooked. Bamboo is still used in small towns across America, though western and European cultures comprehend its value beyond the every day fishing pole or wind chimes.
Since bamboo is a grass, it is a renewable resource. It needs very little room to grow, since certain varieties grow upwards to sixty feet. It generally takes weeks for the grass to grow back once harvested and continues to grow year round. It is these certain attributes that make bamboo quite beneficial to modern civilization.
However, if you are planning on adding bamboo to your current garden, it is advisable to do your homework first. Bamboo, while easy to maintain, can be tricky to remove from your land once it is planted, so make sure that you have the proper plant for your climate, garden and abilities. Once planted, all you will need to do is keep it watered regularly- after all, bamboo requires a great deal of water- and trim it to the appropriate length and width you desire. With over 1,500 varieties of bamboo available, it can get pretty tricky trying to find the perfect plant for your yard. This is why researching your grass is so important. There are varieties that have both clumpers and runners, then bamboo which have one or the other. Clumpers tend to grow outward, while runners grow upwards. Depending on your garden, you will need to decide which one is best suited for you.
The Chinese consider bamboo to be extremely lucky, so having this evergreen in your yard or home can bring much luck to your family. Though lucky bamboo is not traditionally bamboo, but more of a houseplant per se, it is still lucky. And anyone who has bamboo in their yard should consider himself or herself lucky, for they have planted one of nature's greatest grass and are giving back to the planet they love.
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