One of the world’s oldest insulation materials has breathed new life into a leaky cottage in Ontario’s Lake of Bays. Architecture firm Stone’s Throw Design and construction company Fourth Pig teamed ...

Straw bale building offers an affordable, sustainable solution to materials like concrete. Sigi Koko of Down to Earth Design demonstrated straw bale building will work even in wet climates with the ...

The straw bale home of Elise Lang and her husband, Michael Pierce, was finished in 2001. SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH Winding under the canopy of trees shading the long driveway, goats and sheep peered at ...

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 ...

A group of childhood friends are raising money to build a 660-square-foot "straw bale" house for a homeless family in Delaware. Steven Burns (Mount Pleasant '17), Dhruv Mohnot (Concord '17) and ...

Straw bale gardens are becoming popular with growers plagued with poor soil or limited garden space, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Straw bale gardening combines ...