The process from harvesting, takes about 4 months. I had just prepared barely enough bamboo for the training. After that, it wouldn’t be for another 4-5 months before I could build again. So you can see that the process in the beginning was very very slow. So I immersed myself in learning everything I could about bamboo: where to source, how to harvest, what type of species, what time of year, how to dry, how to process, how to treat it so it doesn’t get fall apart. I was just calling random people, asking all these questions, how to do this, where to get it, anyone who would give me the time of day. The process has since then been slightly modified from the one I was taught, which was a North American perspective and used certain techniques and materials that were not exactly the most economical nor the most ecological. And I wanted, as much as possible, to have a locally available, low environmental impact treatment process.