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.

A San Diego-based company is using old school materials like straw bales and clay to build homes that are more fire-resistant for Southern California residents who worry about wildfires season after ...

Thank you so much for the wonderful story about Lou Harrison’s Joshua Tree straw-bale house (“An Original Composition,” Feb. 12) and your important column on straw-bale construction (“It’s What’s ...

Kenyans are increasingly embracing straw bale technology, which uses materials made entirely out of farm waste, to build cheaper and environmentally-friendly dream homes, writes KEVIN OGUOKO Jackline ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook GRASS LAKE MICH. — Joe Trumpey, a professor in the School of Art & Design and the School of ...

Emily Nyokka watched her mother, an artist, help build their circular house made of hay bales and stucco in southern Humboldt County when she was a child back in 1997. The home sits in an open space ...

Settlers in Nebraska’s treeless Sandhills mostly relied on straw in the 1880s and still used the bales to make homes through the 1940s.The post-World War II building boom and people’s desires for ...

I want a natural way to build an energy efficient house without plastics, foams, adhesives, etc. Straw-bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw-bale construction efficient for low utility bills?

Turn those straw bales from your fall decor into a budget-friendly raised garden bed with this simple method. Straw bale gardens work well for veggies, herbs, and flowers but not perennials or larger ...