HOVLAND -- A half-mile down a dirt driveway through woods, a stack of straw bales signals one's arrival at Chris and Cameron Norman's new home. Approach the house, and the scattering of straw on the ...
The Straw Bale in the City 3-part series walks readers through the codes, costs, and construction of a straw-bale build on a non-rural property. Part 1 covers issues with building codes and managing ...
Pierre Constans, worm farmer and landscape designer, stood back and gazed at his little straw hut. “Are you familiar with the ‘Three Little Pigs’?” he asked. In the children’s tale, the Big Bad Wolf ...
Kenyans are increasingly embracing straw bale technology, which uses materials made entirely out of farm waste, to build cheaper and environmentally-friendly dream homes, writes KEVIN OGUOKO Jackline ...
Despite a bad reputation in children's stories, straw buildings can be sustainable, comfortable, and, above all, solid and resistant. Several studies and experiments have been carried out with this ...
WEBSTER TOWNSHIP, MI -- A huff and a puff won’t blow this straw bale house down. A workshop teaching 43 participants how to build a straw bale home took place on Boyden Drive in Webster Township, ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook GRASS LAKE MICH. — Joe Trumpey, a professor in the School of Art & Design and the School of ...
The story of our family’s straw bale home began in the mid-1970s, when my husband, Lytle Robinson, retired and wanted acreage to carry out his fantasy of “living off the land.” In keeping with that ...
Volunteers from on and off the Northern Cheyenne Reservation have come together for the past five weeks to build a straw bale house for a tribal family. But the project, organized by the Red Feather ...
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