Seeking bamboo

I do not seek wealth or fame, just baby bamboo shoots.

We were besieged by mosquitoes and gnats in the damp forest today as we shuffled through the thick layers of leaves looking for more shoots. Today's harvest was deep in the ground and difficult to locate but the price is still good for medium sized shoots. The larger ones, the ones that have already poked through the mulch and are big enough to see, are too big to fetch a good price but can be sold to food manufacturers. We managed close to 60kg and pulled in about $150.

The first two harvests, a couple weeks ago, brought in nearly $600. All in all, by the end of the season, we will have earned around $1000 from our little forest.