Loved this story on the front page of the Washington Post about the “Little Pig’s Law of Construction” focusing on straw bale houses.
Apparently straw building isn’t limited to the Great Plains and American Southwest anymore. Folks in the Washington, D.C., area have the bug to build out of grain shafts…including a school.
Still, the Post says stats are hard to come by. The paper cites an International Straw Bale Building Registry that lists 538 projects nationwide. I’d tend to agree that’s low. I bet our friends in rural New Mexico aren’t on the registry.
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