Learning & Laughter 2023 Recap
Celebrating community connections and bale building over the last 12 months and sneak peeks for the magic of the 2024 workshop season coming your way soon!
Celebrating community connections and bale building over the last 12 months and sneak peeks for the magic of the 2024 workshop season coming your way soon!
Strawbale construction is not only a unique and aesthetically pleasing alternative to conventional building methods but it is also a powerful solution to reduce the carbon footprint of a construction
It’s not every day that I suggest that tens of thousands of people tell me what to do. After all, I try hard to stay ahead of the game and
Our Straw Bale Minute video series provides answers to many of your straw bale construction questions in short, snippets. We all have a minute to spare to improve our understanding
It’s important to understand the glossary of terms for straw bale construction framing. If you don’t know what something is called, you’ll have a harder time ordering the right materials
It’s the million dollar question you’ve all been wondering about: is it enough to have just gravel in your toe ups or do you need something more? Okay, it may
This is a must watch if you are interested in attending a straw bale workshop. The video really sums up the workshop experience and the potential for life changing relationships
Mistakes are often made in contracting when reading plans. Make sure you know your plans properly and know how to read them to catch any potential mistakes.
In this article we review using American Clay plaster over a Natural Hydraulic Lime plaster, making sure that cure times are accounted for.
Plastering has a lot of challenges to it from mixing recipes to application techniques. Some challenges may not be obvious from the start, so be sure to spend some time
It may sound obvious, but learning how to build a house, of any kind but especially a straw bale house, is a good thing to do before you actually start
Ever wonder what one of our straw bale workshops is like? This video will give you a taste. For starters, we have a ton of fun, learn mountains of information,
Andrew Morrison being interviewed for How 2 Build Green: The Sustainability Podcast by Adam Fries, the podcast’s host and creator. I hope you will take a listen.
I was invited to Colorado Springs to give a TEDx talk on tiny house living, living within one’s means, and living a deliberate life that supports one’s joy and wellness.
Most of us don’t have a commercial plaster spraying machine lying around, so we can’t just run out to the garage and flip it on. That said, if you have
Baling with jumbo bales, by which I mean the REALLY large bales that require pretty substantial machinery to place, is possible. However, there are multiple considerations that need to be
Water is enemy number 1 in straw bale construction. The good news is that with proper design and construction details, your straw bale house will stay dry and moisture issue
A myth lurks still that somehow running electrical wiring through straw bale walls is more dangerous than running it through a conventional wall system. That is complete nonsense and I’ll
If you’ve been wanting a How-To guide to Framing Video to add to your collection, the wait is over! Straw bale construction is a wonderful building technique whether you are
Building with bales over wood floors is an option that’s often overlooked in straw bale construction. Building a straw bale house on top of a concrete slab is certainly the
Ready to retie straw bales, the new way?! The new way is to use the Miller’s knot instead of the trucker’s hitch which has been used for years. In the
I have been asked many times in the past and once again recently how straw bale houses and high wind do together. The answer: extremely well. Check out this video
Retying straw bales is one of the most important techniques on a straw bale construction job site. You will be required to retie many bales over the course of the
I often tell people the first step in building a straw bale house, or any house for that matter, does not actually take place during construction but rather in the
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