COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - When Dana Richardson heard that someone in the San Luis Valley had two semi-truck loads of baled straw to dump, she knew just what to do with it. Build a house. Big Bad Wolf ...

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

A home that’s being built in Minneapolis is unconventional because of what the owners are putting in its walls. Peter Schmitt and his wife, Katie, are building a home with straw inside the walls. They ...