Meet some of the Conference Presenters
Bamboo is Not the Boogeyman: Native Rivercane in the Southeastern United States
Dr. Fedoroff is the Executive Director of the CONSERVE Research group at the University of Alabama Water Institute located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He also serves as the Founding Director of the Rivercane Restoration Alliance, which serves to work with landowners to restore canebrakes across the Southeastern United States. His research specialties include native plant species and human ecology.
Kuboo Basketry Workshop
Aaron McCarty interned at Haiku Bamboo Nursery with Keiji Oshima from 2014 to 2016. During Aaron’s internship he became an apprentice of bamboo craft with an emphasis on splitting bamboo for basketry. He is the inventor of the “Kuboo” basket.
Aaron will do give presentation on ” History of Bamboo Basket Making in Japan” and he will also offer a five hour Kuboo Workshop (registration required)
An Integral View On Bamboo Study, Learn, Do, Share, No Borders
Compost: Wood chips, bark, nitrogen, and drainage considerations for bamboo growers
Born and raised in southern Minnesota Zone 4 Dain has been interested in growing bamboo since he was a young kid. The 1980 National Geographic was instrumental in sparking his enthusiasm, but it wasn’t until high school that he joined the ABS in 1995 and began cultivating bamboo. He studied language music and science including Japanese and martial arts. Experienced bamboo farming and sustainable agriculture in Japan in 2001 and has attempted to transplant these learned techniques to his farm over the years. Moved over 250 large divisions of moso from McIlhenny’s grove in Louisiana to Oregon in 2010 and ’11, which now stands as one of the biggest moso groves on the West Coast proudly sporting 4+ inch culms. Dain is an avid lifelong learner who’s keen to try new tools and techniques to accelerate and maximize the size and speed of moso growth.