Community gardens (and individuals) should grow bamboo. It has a ton of DIY applications, and since it's the fastest growing plant in the world it'd be an efficient use of space too
Don't know the specifics of how to grow it, but in the US south I've seen it wild in a lot of places, so it can't be too hard
@socalledunitedstates
Depends on context, and what you do. It takes like 3 years for a bamboo to become hard enough to build something, meanwhile it stays there using space. You have many tens of kilos of food you are not harvesting to keep 100m covered in bamboo for 3 years. After that, is difficult to get rid of it in my experience, takes a while and keeps popping out.
Bamboo also likes a lot of water, in very dry areas you'll have to use much water from the reservoir to grow it.
In some places, like most EU cities, you can find a lot of usable wood in the trash, and recycle it, which is easier and more environmentally friendly.
That's just some thoughts, bamboo of course can have it's place in a design and community owned place, but like everything, it depends IMO
