To market, to market...to sell the bamboo.

Back at the family barn, in the back of the truck, we sort, trim and clean the bamboo shoots so we can package them up for the market. We purchase standardized boxes for our produce and follow the size chart to label the boxes: about 4 shoots = 4 kg (size 3L), 10-12 shoots per box would be Medium size and so forth. The boxes will be arranged by size and number of shoots and auctioned off to buyers in the Monday morning market downtown. We'll find out of Wednesday their value. This is the peak of the harvest season here so the price has dropped but still should be worth our time..

The trimmed bits and the rejected shoots (rejected because somebody didn't cut them cleanly or broke the shoot) will be cooked for family use.