Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Straw bale greenhouse supporting a pvc tunnel. If you have never considered using a straw bale greenhouse, the first question is: ...

Straw demand is far outstripping supply around the country with farmers in the south seeking as much as €40 per round bale. The demand comes on the back of almost totally exhausted reserves and with ...

As a little boy growing up on a Minnesota farm, Joel Karsten wondered why the healthiest weeds seemed to be ones growing out of broken down straw bales. Years later, after earning a degree in ...

Joe Davis sat on the ground to eat his lunch Friday, bathed in sunshine, his eyes shielded by a broad-brimmed straw hat.It seemed an entirely appropriate chapeau since Davis was helping to build a ...

When I moved into my new Philadelphia rowhouse, I was determined to grow the vegetable garden that had eluded me all those years in a cramped Manhattan apartment. But reality struck with the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the ...

An improbable crew labors in the Mojave Desert, stacking straw bales like giant Legos. A young musician mixes cob - water with dirt and straw, slopping it into a wheelbarrow; an art historian totes it ...