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 ...
PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...
Sharon Van Hassel still remembers the laughter, the meals and the dirt flying through the air roughly 25 years ago as she, her late husband and neighbors built a home, straw bale by straw bale. That’s ...
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Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that this ...
Joel Karsten grew up on a Minnesota dairy farm. After earning a horticulture degree at the University of Minnesota, he bought his first house and could hardly wait to sink a tiller into the soil to ...
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 ...
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 ...
When completed this spring, the 26,900-sf Friends Community School in Greenbelt, Md., will be one of the largest straw-bale structures in the world. The Building Team specified straw-bale construction ...
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - UPDATE (8/22 3:30 p.m.) The fire continues to burn at the Masonite PrimeBoard plant, and officials say it will be burning for days and possibly weeks. Crews have been ...
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