November 24, 2017 Bamboo from Kailash Ecovillage

Looking at Craig's List for stuff paid off once more, and just as it did before, we found something interesting.

I watch Craig's List pretty regularly so I knew that some Bamboo would likely come along when needed. We wanted some to start making irrigation stakes and maybe plant stakes ahead of the need for them and I figured this would be a good time to start looking seriously. Bamboo is interesting because it can be used for anything a stick can be used for, but that's not what this is about. This is about the place we found it.

Kailash Ecovillage calls itself a model for sustainability and community and is set on a two acre piece of land in South-east Portland. It is nearby Reed College and has a low rent housing component, and about half the place dedicated to growing food for the community. A great many groups use the space for their individual and group gardens.

I immediately called it a commune, but this is an outdated term for what this place is. They also do a great many other things which ought to be supported in addition to gardens and housing. You can go check their site out by clicking on their name.

Ole (perhaps the leader of the group, I don't know) came out to meet us and show us the piles of Bamboo to be carted off. He seemed a nice man, interested in new things.

Of course, we got there in late November and the weather was mild, but they had bees buzzing, people doing stuff, and green stuff growing (or rotting everywhere) you looked. It just so happens that they also have maybe two hundred feet of their perimeter plants in Bamboo as well, so much the better for us. They apparently had a Bamboo thinning party which left them with a bunch of the stuff and no real use for it. So once more, I needed something. The world opened up and gave me everything I might need. They needed something, the world sent us.

The ad did not mention the amount of Bamboo, but we took all of the big stuff (which I am sure they needed gone). We didn't have room for the smaller stuff, but took as much of it as we could.  It now sits at the ready in a pile along side of the pile of rocks from Polscher's place, and the plastic pallets from Gathering Together Farm.

That's a whole lotta Bamboo.
Thanks to Ole!