Ryan Richardson took this photo of a Western Parson Spider on a straw bale at the Resource Conservation District, where Ryan ...

When it comes to covers for your garden soil, pine straw may be right. You'll only know for sure once you've compared it to ...

Chip and Willow are the latest additions to Mapperton Wildlands in Dorset, replacing Twiggy and Woody who escaped following ...

Jared “Cappie” Capp is the builder and designer at the center of the Magnolia Network reality series Building Outside the Lines, where he and his teenage stepdaughter Alex Headley create one‑of‑a‑kind ...

Greg Bossie jokes that negative ideas around building with straw starts in childhood. “We all grew up with the Three Little Pigs,” he said. “So people have a lot of misconceptions about the viability ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you are considering building a new house, it can be an exciting time. However, it can also be intimidating because of the expense. The ...

Mesa Sky Disk is built around a core of 320 three-foot bales of barley straw. Their natural curves shape and insulate the structure. Photography by Kevin Cain Listen to this story: For years, I ...

Teams battled it out at the 14th annual Straw Bale Rolling Championship in Dornumersiel, northern Germany, on October 12 – pushing 550-pound bales through slalom courses and even up a steep track. The ...

Living off-grid means creating a home independent of public utilities like water, electricity, or sewage systems. Many of these self-sufficient dwellings use renewable energy, collect rainwater, and ...

Jul. 31—Sharon Van Hassel still remembers the laughter, the meals and the dirt flying through the air roughly 25 years ago as she, her late husband and neighbors built a home, straw bale by straw bale ...

In June 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that Batman actor Christian Bale was building 12 homes in a $22 million village in Palmdale, California, that aimed to keep siblings in the ...