Find Answers To Your Straw Bale Construction Questions

Essential articles, how to guides, and stories from builds across the country

Dive into step by step how to articles, code and permitting tips, materials sourcing, design strategies, and workshop updates. Whether you are dreaming, planning, or building, you will find practical answers and inspiration from the field.

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Timbo Scursso 8/22/25 Timbo Scursso 8/22/25

What Still Makes Our Straw Bale Workshops Special

Our week long, hands on straw bale workshops still change lives. See how people, shared work, and simple joy make learning stick. Find a week that fits you.

Andrew Morrison 6/19/20 Andrew Morrison 6/19/20

BIPOC Straw Bale Workshop Scholarships

We offer a limited number scholarships per straw bale workshop season to the BIPOC community. Learn more here.

Andrew Morrison 7/24/12 Andrew Morrison 7/24/12

Home Sweet Home: A Straw Bale Workshop Experience

Awesome article from Sutherland Living Magazine is the creation of a straw bale workshop participant, Tiffany Redding. Her enthusiasm and genuine excitement to learn were contagious during that workshop and she will long be remembered by all of those there. Tiffany’s article, “Home Sweet Home, is reprinted courtesy of Sutherland Living Magazine

Andrew Morrison 1/18/12 Andrew Morrison 1/18/12

Living Simply: Discovering What Really Matters

This is a rather personal blog entry and I hope that you can “hear” it without your filters on. You may agree or disagree with me and that’s fine. What I do hope is that you will ask yourselves some questions and that you will look deeply in what is true FOR YOU.