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With recent warm weather, there are lovely signs that spring is nearly upon us - including a vast variety of flowering shrubs, trees and bulbs. The daffodils and anemones are ...

First in the hotseat for this new series of Contractor Comment is Dan Fabb, proprietor of eponymous Cambridgeshire outfit DRA Fabb. Q: How did you get ...

Learn about the University of Arizona community resources she used, visit the Canelo Project in Sonoita to meet a family promoting strawbale building, and view Curt Brill’s large, distinctive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jon Clark has led EarthCraft Construction Design Build for 13 years, specializing in sustainable straw-bale construction methods. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran and licensed general contractor in ...

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. That’s ...

As CEO of Earthcraft Construction, Jon Clark represents a growing movement of Idaho builders who are transforming agricultural waste into sustainable, high-performance homes and commercial structures.

We are Magali & Stefan. We live with nature on a Zone 5b-6a piece of land we have the honour of caring for here in Canada. We grow our food & restore native biodiversity to the land. Using nature as ...