A tour of straw bale buildings near Cozad and Gibbon is set for Saturday. The first is a two-story home near Cozad and the second is a 6,700-square-foot building housing the Ian Nicholson Nature ...
Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that this ancient building technique is not only durable and efficient, but it is also a ...
PARADISE — Networking group BS & Beer Chico will be touring an owner-built straw bale residence which is under construction in Paradise at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 12. RSVP to the group’s Facebook page for ...
"This is a straw-bale house [where] the walls are made of bales of straw," said Rebecca Tasker, a builder and designer from Simple Construct. Rebecca said when you build with bales, you start with the ...
Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...
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The Pros and Cons of Straw Bale Construction
People have built houses from straw since the Paleolithic Era, but modern straw bale construction originated on the plains of Nebraska more than 100 years ago. Andrew Morrison of StrawBale.com says ...
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 ...
BROWNSVILLE, Ore. (AP) - A Brownsville couple is building Linn County's first straw-bale house. Don Andrews and his partner, Cheryl Haworth, have purchased some 325 bales of wheat straw from a local ...
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