Harvesting Bamboo Shoots In Vietnam | Digging Wild Shoots Out Of The Hillside

Harvesting bamboo shoots the old way - a short blade, wet ground, and a lot of bending over. Harvesting bamboo shoots has to be done early, while the shoot is still under or barely out of the soil. Once it stands up and greens, it turns woody and no one will eat it. You find them by the cracked earth around the clump, not by looking up. Wild shoots like these are smaller and tougher than the farmed kind, but they taste far stronger. Harvesting bamboo shoots in the hills means walking a long way for a basket that does not look like much. Back home they get peeled, boiled to take the bitterness out, and cooked the same day. Harvesting bamboo shoots and cooking them are really one job split over one afternoon. If you have never seen harvesting bamboo shoots done by hand in the Vietnamese countryside, this is the whole thing, start to finish, no narration. The channel has more days like this one - durian harvests, coffee and pepper gardens, pomelo picking, and the village market in the rain. Subscribe for more. Wild bamboo shoots come up after rain, and picking bamboo shoots means digging them out before they turn woody. If you want to harvest bamboo shoots yourself, go early. A bamboo shoot recipe can wait for another video - this one is the digging, a slice of Vietnamese farm life, rural life and Vietnam village life. More from our family farm: A slow morning among the durian trees: https://youtu.be/zIpbfUvhqDk Basket after basket of durians in one day: https://youtu.be/97or1B4hwtc Every farm day, in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbaKdj5bntwA Disclaimer: filmed for general interest and entertainment on our own family farm; farming practices shown are what we do, not professional advice. Thank you for spending time with Rose's Farm Life. #HarvestingBambooShoots #RuralLife #Foraging