Our straw and plaster crews have fond memories of a summer spent lakeside, raising this tastefully appointed home. Completely off-the-grid, this modestly sized yet carefully detailed lakeside homestead was collaboratively designed by

A beautiful combination of soaring timber frame and straw bale construction. We built this unique straw bale home hidden away in the Horseshoe Valley for great people who began as

Home Alive: The Home that Thinks, Drinks and Breathes. Harvest Homes founder, Ben Polley, designed and oversaw construction of this model home to demonstrate how to intelligently address today’s housing and ecological challenges in northern

Pelican Eyes Hotel in Nicaragua was constructed using Straw Bales by a local workforce under the direction of Harvest Homes. Piedras y Olas is dubbed Pelican Eyes in English. Indeed,

Living proof that straw bale structures can fit into any neighborhood, these environmentally friendly homes can look as unique or as mainstream as you like. Straw bale buildings often feature unique,

Straw bale construction is much more than just a building-trade – it is an artisinal craft. Whether your interest is the dead sharp lines and hard corners prevalent in contemporary design, a more organic