Near the end of a dirt road that weaves in and out of the woods outside Farmington, Ga., sits a tasteful Southern farmhouse owned by Elise Lang and Michael Pierce. Its wide hip roof and the deep eaves ...

Minnesota's first code-approved straw-bale house is super energy-efficient – and wolf-proof. When their friends heard they were building a straw-bale house, Ken and Laura Geisen were peppered with ...

There was one niggling downside to growing up in a large Cleveland Heights home with a supersize yard big enough to accommodate large play areas and a built-in swimming pool. "It was a lot of yard to ...

The straw bale home of Elise Lang and her husband, Michael Pierce, was finished in 2001. SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH Winding under the canopy of trees shading the long driveway, goats and sheep peered at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the ...

WEBSTER TOWNSHIP, MI -- A huff and a puff won’t blow this straw bale house down. A workshop teaching 43 participants how to build a straw bale home took place on Boyden Drive in Webster Township, ...

Built a decade before today's green building vogue, Oakland's only straw bale house has emerged as a showplace of ancient methods, modern technologies and Bay Area sensibilities. Now, the ...

Straw bale creates a healing environment for Michele to do her energy work. She says her patients claim to feel better before she even puts her hands on them. Chickens and guinea hens, which share a ...