Oranges are a huge part of Florida’s identity and economy, but the industry has been in decline due to citrus greening disease.

Three years after experimenting with its first crop of edible organic bamboo on an eight-acre plot where it usually grows citrus, Mixon Fruit Farms in Bradenton harvested its first crop last week.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Valley farm is banking on bamboo to become the cash crop of the future. The new plantings pose a big risk but growers hope a big reward awaits in the form of a tropical ...

Philip Karoki, a worker at a bamboo farm. Bamboo has plenty of uses such as construction, making charcoal, pulp, utensils, furniture, toothpicks and crafts. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD] The bamboo ...

COBURG, Ore. — Nonprofit farm Parker Learning Gardens hopes the spooky spirit of Halloween will draw attention and donations. Instead of a corn maze, the farm will offer a Haunted Bamboo Forest for ...

Alloys Barasa Mulla at his bamboo farm in Butula, Busia County. Bamboo tree is a valuable plant. However, many farmers do not consider farming the crop, which according to those who have ever had a ...