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 ...

When Mike Evans and his colleagues at the Tree of Life Nursery near San Juan Capistrano, Calif., began constructing some of their buildings in straw more than 10 years ago, they had good reasons: · ...

Stucco can be damaged just as in any other home, allowing the straw inside to get wet.“If you have a loose board or your vinyl is loose and moisture gets behind there, there could be problems,” ...