An idea coupled with the artistic talent of Darla Hoff and daughter Savannah Hoff transforms a few simple items into a vibrant, showstopping work of art. Their canvas is four round straw bales. The ...

A Kennewick man is suspected of stealing thousands of pounds of hay in rural Franklin County. Iriankys Martinez-Yera was ...

A fire late Sunday destroyed about 1,000 bales of straw stacked in a field along Lyon Valley Road in Weisenberg Township. The blaze, visible miles away by traffic traveling along Route 100 between ...

Till last year, many biomass power plant companies were taking land on lease to store straw bales, but this year the trend has almost vanished.

There's nothing more delightful than growing vegetables in your own backyard, but not everyone has the right soil for doing so. Turns out, there's an even better medium to build a garden on: straw ...

If you'd like to install a raised bed but don't have the resources to build one, you can achieve the same effect by growing your plants in straw bales. It’s also a great option for those with poor ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs Press, ...

More than 100 giant bales of straw valued at up to £4,000 have been stolen from three fields in the Knockin area near Oswestry. In all three incidents the bales had been stacked in piles of 36 ready ...

David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in plaster.

I am excited to report that my straw bale garden yielded some very nice vegetables! If you read Part I of my article, you know that I decided on straw bale gardening so that the garden soil could be ...