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, ...

Whitefish Stage Organic Farms has opened a straw bale maze containing 4,000 bales and estimated at approximately 20,000 square feet Shaped like a tractor, built entirely out of straw, the maze took ...

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 ...

There are lots of varied styles and techniques when growing vegetables in the backyard. From simple container gardening to a farming style of roto-till gardening, vegetables can be grown under ...

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 ...

Q: I want a natural way to build an energy-efficient house without plastics, foams, adhesives and the like. Straw-bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw-bale construction efficient? A: ...

When their friends heard they were building a straw-bale house, Ken and Laura Geisen were peppered with "Three Little Pigs" jokes. "They asked if we were afraid a wolf will blow it down," said Laura.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...