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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor clothing brand Patagonia, has just added straw bale home construction to the long list of his environmentally friendly deeds, Fast Company reports. Straw bale ...
JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on its way to becoming known world-wide as the center--if not quite the birthplace--of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale, the ...
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 ...
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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 ...
PARADISE — Straw bale house owners Delayne Stoneman and Eric Brzescinski were thrilled to see people coming to see the progress of the building of their house Oct. 12. Several interested parties ...
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Expert claims more homes should be built out of one surprising material: 'High-performance houses'
Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that 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, ...
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 ...
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