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Harvest Homes Founder Ben Polley Speaking at Natural Building Symposium at 33rd Annual Guelph Organic Conference
Evolve founder Ben Polley will be among the invited speakers at a Natural Building Symposium, to be held at the 33rd annual Guelph Organic Conference. Symposium organizer and architect Ingrid Cryns,
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Natural Homes Open to Public Sunday October 6th
Experience the look and feel of some unique natural homes during the popular annual Ontario-wide Natural Homes Tour, Sunday October 6th, 10AM to 4PM. Local builders Ben Polley and Chris
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Press Release: Registration now open for the 2012 OSBBC Annual General Meeting
Saturday & Sunday, March 24 & 25 2012 We invite you to join us for two days of professional development. We are excited about what we have organized and look
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Press Release: Harvest Homes Launches New Website
Harvest Homes is proud to announce the launch of its completely remodeled website. The new site showcases a newly updated portfolio of recent straw-bale projects, provides descriptions of all of
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Harvest Homes meets niche market demands – Ontario Construction Report
Huff and puff all you want Mr. Wolf, but this house isn’t going anywhere. Straw bale homes are unique structures, and contrary to what fairy tales would have you believe,
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Home addition has family grasping at straws – Guelph Mercury
By Lisa Varano Mercury Staff The straw house in the story of the three little pigs may have been easily blown down by the big bad wolf, but that was
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What is Green?? – Canadian Home Workshop Magazine
BY JAY SOMERSET For every 100 home-builders who claim they can’t make a decent living building green homes, there’s a Ben Polley, a successful, environmentally focused builder that can’t keep
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Inexpensive and Sustainable Homes are Easy to Build and the Way of the Future – Organic Earth Magazine
By Gary Crawford For whatever reason, be it dwindling oil supplies, the threat of global warming, or the encouragement of the One Tonne Challenge, we are all beginning to consider
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Natural Holmes – Canadian Contractor Magazine
By Mike Holmes It’s refreshing when you get a chance to work on something unusual and creative—a type of building foreign to most Canadian streets. I was lucky enough to