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I stumbled across the concept of constructing homes out of bales of hay and straw last year. It may sound bizarre, but there are advantages to building your home out of straw. And no need to worry about the Big Bad Wolf! ;-)

The McKinley family have a page with photographs showing the step-by-step procedures for building a small straw bale house, at members.xoom.com/rmckinle/basepage.htm

Shannon Hames' Page is at www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8308/

The Resource Guide at www.xmission.com/~shea/straw/

Straw Bale Association of Texas at www.ccsi.com/~lsd/sbat.html

Here are a couple of articles that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper...
Clutching at straw I Feb. 26, 1997

Clutching at straw II Feb. 28, 1998

Here are a few books that I've found on straw bale construction. You can order them from Amazon.com just by clicking on the order link under each listing.

Title: The Straw Bale House
Authors: Athena Swentzell Steen [et al.]
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
ISBN: 0930031717
Description: 336 pages ; 25 cm.
Published December 1994

From the amazon.com webpage...
Authors Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen founded the Canelo Project, which promotes innovative building. David Bainbridge [one of the co-authors] is a California restoration ecologist; and David Eisenberg [the other co-author] is an alternative materials builder who pioneered straw bale wall testing.
The book is comprehensive, broadly covering why and how to build with straw and then focusing on the details, which are both intellectually and aesthetically delightful.

Click here to order from Amazon.com
Accckk! I've had a faulty link for this book. Sorry, folks! It's fixed now.

Title: Build It with Bales: a Step-by-Step Guide to Straw Bale Construction, Version Two
Authors: S.O. MacDonald, Matts Myrhman
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
ISBN: 0964282119
Description: 148 pages ; 28 cm.
Second edition published July 1998

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Title: Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw Bale Architecture
Authors: Bruce King and Ann Edminster
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
ISBN: 0964471817
Description: 169 pages ; 23 cm.
Published April 1997

From the amazon.com webpage...
Buildings of earth and straw fills in the gaps for professional builders, contractors, engineers, inspectors, lenders, and architectural students. It includes special construction requirements of earth and straw, design capabilities and limitations of these materials. This book offers the nuts and bolts of rammed earth and straw bale building techniques, and why they are so spectacular, durable, and earth-friendly.
Rated 5 stars out of 5!

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