In the beginning…
there was bamboo. And it was good.

Many Southeast Asian cultures, such as the Andaman Islanders, believe that human life sprouted from a single shoot of bamboo. Other legends say that man and woman emerged from the splitting open of a bamboo stem.

While we cannot speak for the veracity of these ideologies, we do know that the beneficial relationship between man and bamboo goes back many millennia, to the earliest of human civilizations.