Starting a timber bamboo plantation to produce bamboo flooring and other renewable products, seeking investors to help purchase land for growing.

Bamboo, with over a thousand species worldwide, is one of the faster growing plants in the world. Unlike trees, which take 30 or more years to mature, a timber bamboo can can reach its maximum height of 60-80 feet within 45 days. Bamboo has a wide variety of uses including:

     - cut timber, small to large diameters and lengths
     - plant stakes (Pseudosasa japonica) for plant starts sold wholesale
     - edible shoots at our established Farmers Market booth 
     - nursery stock plants, retail and wholesale 
     - fencing products 
     - various other crafts

The most renewable products from bamboo are flooring and plywood, which are made by gluing together the slats of split canes. Bamboo flooring is at least 25% stronger than oak, and various manufacturing methods yield even stronger flooring. 

In the future, bamboo may be used in manufacturing other types of lumber as well. Even though bamboo will never replace trees, it can significantly reduce logging needs in environmentally unstable regions. INBAR commissioned a film about the uses of bamboo, found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC638t4HhHY.

Our plan is to start groves of 40+ bamboo species in Southern Oregon, USA to harvest for the uses listed above. Waste can be used to generate electricity at a local biomass plant.

We've been a nursery growing and selling bamboo plants for eight years and have much of the stock to start the groves. The element we are currently missing is farmland, which is now widely available in our region after a large decrease in pear orchards. 

Investors who help us purchase our initial farmland will be given a percentage of profits based on the size of the investment. Our business plan is on our website.