The Vintage High School Garden Club has ponied up a $200 reward for information leading to the identity and arrest of the people who vandalized the school garden last weekend. Vandals climbed the ...

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.

STAPLES -- A shed and 500 large square bales of straw were destroyed by fire Friday, Aug. 9, in Wadena County. The Wadena County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 10:14 p.m. of a structure fire in ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...

PORT ANGELES — Michael and Spring Thomas want to demonstrate how strong a house built of straw can be. Straw bales, that is. Compressed and covered in plaster, straw bales stay dry, resist fire and ...

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, ...