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.

Dainella Nartker 8/2/25 Dainella Nartker 8/2/25

What I Learned About Community at the Bellingham Workshop

See inside the 2025 Bellingham, WA workshop and watch the magic unfold.

Dainella Nartker 6/25/25 Dainella Nartker 6/25/25

Taos, NM Straw Bale Construction Hands-on Workshop

See videos from the 2025 Taos NM workshop and watch the build happen!

Dainella Nartker 11/17/24 Dainella Nartker 11/17/24

Are You New To Straw Bale Construction?

Great! We hear all the time folks have been ‘thinking about this for years’. It’s a learning process. Here is a wealth of information about where to start in learning about the technique, next steps, and FAQs.

Dainella Nartker 7/26/24 Dainella Nartker 7/26/24

Meet The Host - Delta CO

This September 2024, we are in Delta, Colorado, to learn straw bale construction and natural plastering skills together in one of bread basket agricultural areas of the Rocky Mountains.

Dainella Nartker 6/28/24 Dainella Nartker 6/28/24

Missoula MT Straw Bale Construction 7-day Hands-on Workshop

See videos from the workshop and watch the build happen!