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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.

STAPLES -- A shed and 500 large square bales of straw were destroyed by fire Friday, Aug. 9, in Wadena County. The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 10:14 p.m. of a structure fire in ...

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 ...

The Vintage High School Garden Club has ponied up a $200 reward for information leading to the identity and arrest of the people who vandalized the school garden last weekend. Vandals climbed the ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...

On October 8, 2005, the northern mountainous region of Pakistan was struck by a magnitude Mw = 7.6 earthquake which killed an estimated 100,000 people, destroyed over 780,000 buildings and rendered ...

Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales of straw. Emily, Katy, Lucy and Jess have opened the Big Bale Play at High Lodge Farm in Culham, ...