For six years, Red Feather Development Group has been pushing a low-cost solution to the housing crunch on Indian reservations, where extended families often squeeze into tiny government-issue homes.

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.

The interest in straw-bale construction for houses, originally a 19th century technique, began redeveloping in the late 1980s as one of a number of "natural" building techniques, as Marcia Schnedler ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re energy savers. Architect Ben Obregon built his Austin, Texas home using rectangular straw bales for walls, which were covered with stucco outside the home and adobe plaster inside. He’s ...

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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Kenyans are increasingly embracing straw bale technology, which uses materials made entirely out of farm waste, to ...