I wonder whether bamboo shoots could be frozen, cooked or raw.
My wife has several areas of land, mainly for rice, She wisely lets the family farm the rice and plans to sell the paddies to buy land nearer to home on which to grow fruit and other produce. The present bamboo grows on a small plot in her old village a few minutes away but the new consignment and the recent cuttings will go on land behind our house. We have some lime saplings to plant in pots too. I want those close to the house because they discourage the mosquitoes.
It's great to see things grow quickly in the rainy season here but the weed grass and other unwanted vegetation quickly takes over any area that is fallow. The bamboo will inhibit all of that and provide some shade for the banties and newly arrived geese once it grows up. I'll need to provide irrigation during the dry season.
Bamboo is used for many things here so nothing goes to waste. Everyone eats the shoots and the great thing is that it can be sold locally rather than through the merchants. Cut stems will be useful as kindling in the pizza oven at the restaurant once they are dried. I wonder whether bamboo wood is good for smoking meat and fish. Split bamboo is used for baskets, chicken domes, fruit pickers and all manner of other things. The leaves rot slowly and so provide ground cover.
