Some gardening tasks, despite being good exercise, are just not very enjoyable. Digging in clay, weeding and bending over to pick bush beans come to mind as three seasonal “pains.” Growing them in ...

When Mike Evans and his colleagues at the Tree of Life Nursery near San Juan Capistrano began constructing some of their buildings in straw more than 10 years ago, they had good reasons: The buildings ...

A straw bale house is made using straw as either a main structural element, insulation, or both. The buildings are constructed by stacking rows of compact straw bales on a strong foundation before ...

Did the thought of the work involved in starting a vegetable garden keep you from having one this year? Did time for all that rototilling or digging in of compost never materialized? Or maybe you ...

Add productive garden space and raise your planting bed with straw bale gardening. This technique allows gardeners to create raised bed gardens on a patio, lawn or any area with poor compacted soil.