Anne Arundel officials needed proof that the county’s first straw-bale house was not at greater risk for fire, mildew and insect infestation. The couple’s consulting environmental architect ...

The hypermasculinity movement is out of hand. Rep. Tim Burchett’s comment to Fox News about using straws appears to be the ...

Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said during a recent interview that he does not use straws, telling Fox News that is “what women in my ...

But Doleman designed things to stay dry: 2 feet of eaves extend over the side of the house, sheathed in water-shedding Tyvek beneath the clapboard exterior. Straw, a plentiful and inexpensive ...

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 ...

Cob is a natural building material made out of clay, sand, and straw. "We stumbled across a photo of a cob house in Wales and we got really interested, so we started collecting lots of pictures of ...

Atelier Kaiser Shen has used straw bale-construction to create an interlocking semi-detached house in the village of Pfaffenhofen, Germany. Appropriately named Straw Bale House, the dwelling near ...

In Clinton, Mary Ellen Blakey is building a straw house even the Big Bad Wolf couldn’t blow down. Nearly 10 years ago, Blakey read a magazine article about straw bale houses, which piqued her ...

A family like that of Jen Frey and Joe Wirbick can find enough space to build a straw bale house or two on a windy hillside near Mount Joy. They started construction of a temporary first house in ...