Hundreds of straw bales have been arranged in a maze layout, like last year's event (pictured) Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales of ...

What Is Straw Bale Gardening? Straw bale gardening is an easy way to grow a raised vegetable garden without using any other kind of soil. Seeds are planted in bales that are treated with an organic ...

Whitefish Stage Organic Farms has opened a straw bale maze containing 4,000 bales and estimated at approximately 20,000 square feet Shaped like a tractor, built entirely out of straw, the maze took ...

When I moved into my new Philadelphia rowhouse, I was determined to grow the vegetable garden that had eluded me all those years in a cramped Manhattan apartment. But reality struck with the first ...

The bales are also good for stacking into play forts, but this time of year, when nights are still cool and the vegetables of summer are calling to be planted, straw bales suffice as building material ...

It’s that time of year again when Darla Hoff works her artistic magic with a few simple items. This Autumn, she created her 15th annual straw bale display with just four straw bales sourced from a ...

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When their friends heard they were building a straw-bale house, Ken and Laura Geisen were peppered with "Three Little Pigs" jokes. "They asked if we were afraid a wolf will blow it down," said Laura.

Straw demand is far outstripping supply around the country with farmers in the south seeking as much as €40 per round bale. The demand comes on the back of almost totally exhausted reserves and with ...

Four sisters have created a children's playground and maze at their Oxfordshire farm using 300 bales of straw. Emily, Katy, Lucy and Jess have opened the Big Bale Play at High Lodge Farm in Culham, ...