She wondered if she could construct a plastic-free house on a limited budget. For her there was a professional as well as a ...

With recent warm weather, there are lovely signs that spring is nearly upon us - including a vast variety of flowering shrubs, trees and bulbs. The daffodils and anemones are ...

Free Master Gardener class! Small Space Gardening will be held on Saturday, March 28th from 9 a.m. to noon at the GSA Building, 12200-B Airport Road in Jackson. Think you ...

First in the hotseat for this new series of Contractor Comment is Dan Fabb, proprietor of eponymous Cambridgeshire outfit DRA ...

Learn about the University of Arizona community resources she used, visit the Canelo Project in Sonoita to meet a family promoting strawbale building, and view Curt Brill’s large, distinctive ...

Jared “Cappie” Capp is the builder and designer at the center of the Magnolia Network reality series Building Outside the Lines, where he and his teenage stepdaughter Alex Headley create one‑of‑a‑kind ...

SPRINGFIELD — With technology from Sweden by way of Australia, Durra Panel USA plans to take wasted wheat straw and press it into building panels that could replace gypsum. The company is looking for ...

Greg Bossie jokes that negative ideas around building with straw starts in childhood. “We all grew up with the Three Little Pigs,” he said. “So people have a lot of misconceptions about the viability ...

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to ...

Straw bales are often used for fall decorating, but did you know you also can turn them into a budget-friendly raised bed garden for growing vegetables, herbs, and annual flowers? Once winter sets in, ...