For six years, Red Feather Development Group has been pushing a low-cost solution to the housing crunch on Indian reservations, where extended families often squeeze into tiny government-issue homes.

David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in plaster.

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Robert Young had no idea when he met Katherine Red Feather on a South Dakota Indian reservation how much his life was going to change. Young, at the time a successful clothing ...

Kenyans are increasingly embracing straw bale technology, which uses materials made entirely out of farm waste, to build cheaper and environmentally-friendly dream homes, writes KEVIN OGUOKO Jackline ...

PARADISE — Straw bale house owners Delayne Stoneman and Eric Brzescinski were thrilled to see people coming to see the progress of the building of their house Oct. 12. Several interested parties ...

They’re energy savers. Architect Ben Obregon built his Austin, Texas home using rectangular straw bales for walls, which were covered with stucco outside the home and adobe plaster inside. He’s ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Robert Young had no idea when he first met Katherine Red Feather on a South Dakota Indian reservation how much his life was going to change. Young, at the time a successful clothing ...

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

Using straw instead of typical insulation materials reduces a house’s carbon footprint, because straw absorbs carbon instead of emitting it. It's also highly energy efficient, can be sourced locally ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...