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, ...

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 ...

Straw bale sculptures of tractors, animals and a combine harvester have been created by young farmers as part of an annual competition. Five Cambridgeshire groups are competing against each other, ...

If there is a straw bale kicking around our place, it is always put to use. There are five long rows of them next to the peach orchard, where we'll be planting a small vineyard in spring. Though ...

Entrepreneur turns straw into wattles BELFIELD, N.D. -- As Kurt Kordon was driving down the road he noticed the straw wattles -- long, thin straw bales seen in the ditches and medians along the ...

Dear Jim: I want a natural way to build an energy efficient house without plastics, foams, adhesives, etc. Straw bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw bale construction efficient for low ...

Minnesota's first code-approved straw-bale house is super energy-efficient – and wolf-proof. When their friends heard they were building a straw-bale house, Ken and Laura Geisen were peppered with ...

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 ...

Traditional building techniques and modern technology come together in the House in Berne, a self-sufficient straw bale house in Graben, a Swiss village located less than an hour’s drive north of Bern ...

Hundreds of straw bales have been arranged in a maze layout, like last year's event (pictured) Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales of ...