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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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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