Texas Bamboo Society Work Day - Gathering - Bamboo Dig - Fund Raiser
At the Chambers Bamboo Farm, Buckholts , Texas
Saturday, May 31, 2008 Cost = $15 per member
All TBS members are invited - and you can join TBS/ABS that day, on the spot membership application
What you get for your money - hard work, fun, lunch will be provided in the grove, the opportunity to dig several varieties of bamboo, and the chance to see this fine bamboo farm. If you have never done this before, it is a great way to learn about bamboo and its care.
Goal: to help groom the groves and take home plants if you wish
Bring: water, chairs for lunch, pruning shears, loppers, saws, sharp spades, slammers, work gloves, hats, and dirt to fill the holes you dig if you are taking plants home.
No dessert furnished, so everyone with a sweet tooth brings us all something.
Schedule: 8:30 a.m. - Arrive - coffee and tea or bring your own breakfast 9:00 a.m. - Orientation and divide into work teams Lunch - when we decide it’s time After lunch - dig selected bamboos to take home
If you forget to bring dirt, some will be available for a donation of $3 per hole you dig and then fill.
If you don’t make the work hours, you can still dig plants for an additional $50 donation to TBS.
If you can, let us know in advance if you plan to attend.
Contact person: Steve Muzos, TBS President, 512-301-2929, or gardentex@hotmail.com
Directions from Austin - Go North on I-35 to Jarrell Texas exit #275, and turn EAST on FM 487, to Bartlett (about 10 mi ) at Bartlett turn LEFT at the Caution light, onto State Highway 95: go about 4 miles to FM 2268 (just past a LARGE auto junk yard), and turn Right (East) onto # 2268, Follow #2268 for about another 10 miles When #2268 "T's into Highway 437, turn RIGHT onto #437, and go about ½ mile to a YELLOW farm house on the right Just after the Yellow Farm House, turn LEFT onto County Road #406 ( there is a sign on the main highway .). This will be a 'normal' county GRAVEL road:: follow it for about 4 miles to a Concrete River Bridge (Little River) AFTER the bridge, go about 300 yards to a large electric substation on the right. Turn RIGHT into and THRU the Substation and you will be on the lane to our house. This lane ONLY goes to our house:: there will be some Black Bamboo hidden under the trees on your right just after the Substation, and then a couple other kinds on the left. Drive thru "Bambusa Multiple Lane" and you will be here... (You can barely see the house behind the Bamboo Wind Break, until you almost drive into it...) (Drive PAST the House and you'll be IN the river.)..
Directions from Cameron, Temple, Jarrell are also available. Email TxBooGuru@aol.com
