Patty Zishka’s great wall is being lessened. The straw-bale wall, 160 yards long as it snakes around her property on 75th Street a bit north of Valmont Road, is a few inches too tall. Someone — it was ...
Dear Jim: I want a natural way to build an energy efficient house without plastics, foams, adhesives, etc. Straw bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw bale construction efficient for low ...
Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster County, straw - the leftover stalks of wheat, rye, oats or, sometimes, ...