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When choosing insulating materials for your home or building, the options are more numerous than they first appear. A visit to the hardware store will yield only a few options: foam board, fiberglass rolls, and perhaps spray foam. These materials, ...

  Are you in the market for a new home and considering starting from scratch with all-new construction? If so, then you are most likely considering ways to make your home as energy efficient as possible while still maintaining a ...

  Straw bale gardening is simply what it sounds like: growing a garden in bales of straw. It offers many advantages that aren’t typically available in most in-ground traditional gardens, or even in some raised bed gardens. Before we look ...

Off-the-grid homes and retreats can be constructed from conventional materials, but are often tight-budget builds designed to harness their power from the earth (geo-thermal) and the sun in the most feasible way possible. In our off-the-grid home options series, we ...

October 31, 2012 Here’s a new approach to raised bed gardening. Watch this video to receive instructions for planting in a straw bale. Previous Video

It would never occur to most people to look for construction materials in a farmer’s field. But when wheat, oats, barley, rye, or rice are harvested, the fibrous plant husks left behind are not just a useless waste product. When ...