David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in plaster.

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

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, ...

Ventura County issued its first permit Friday for a straw-bale building, approving construction of a reception center at the Ojai Foundation’s spiritual retreat. The permit will allow use of straw ...

Roberta Strickler Jan 19, 2007 Jan 19, 2007 Updated Sep 11, 2013 Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster County, ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- The Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc., or VINES, is set for the new headquarters building to place its first straw bale at the Susquehanna Street location.

After nearly a month of mixing together clay, sand and a little bit of straw to press against the sides of stacked straw bale walls, builder Edward Roberts smiled, looking at his first straw bale ...

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 ...

The utilisation of straw bales in construction has attracted growing interest as a sustainable alternative to conventional building materials. Straw bale construction integrates agricultural ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A University of Michigan green building class plans to unveil a sustainably-built, straw-bale ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - When you're "off the grid," it puts you in tune with the way you use your resources in a different way, according to University of Michigan Stamps Art & Design Associate Professor Joe ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...