LIVE OAK – The hum of a tractor’s motor fills the forest as a worker heaves an armful of pine needles into a rusted red baler. He flips a metal lever over the tawny leaves and pushes down sharply, ...

My sister Laura and Grandma Josephine tending the chickens on the family farm. Yes, that is a little genuine Minnesota straw in the foreground. Because the straw bale generates heat as the straw ...

After 11 years in a straw-bale home, Erik Lindbergh has only good things to say. “It’s not like the three little pigs, with the big bad wolf who’s going to blow it away,” Lindbergh said. His house in ...

Do you recommend building straw bale homes? And/or can you insulate an existing home with straw bales on the outside of the home and then finish it using siding, wood, or stucco? I wonder why this ...

When building post and beam in straw bale, what if I substitute concrete block columns for the wooden posts? Will they draw moisture into the straw? They could. However, the usual practice is to wrap ...

Steve Fehnel, on the trailer, stacks straw for his brother Gary, on the tractor, in a field along High Street in Tatamy. Both Steve and Gary Fehnel are from Tatamy. The straw is a byproduct of wheat, ...

If you love the idea of dining on lettuce and tomatoes that you grow yourself, but you're not into the digging and weeding end of it, there's a solution: straw-bale gardening. Gardening with straw ...

Columbia Falls' Farming for the Future Academy built a straw bale classroom to bring its free, inclusive farm programs ...

The EU-funded project to develop the straw houses was led by the University of Bath and specialty architecture firm ModCell. The first houses to hit the market are a row of seven town homes in the ...

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