From breaking news to special features, we're on it! Join the NonStop Local Chord group and always be in the know. BOZEMAN, Mont. - The Bozeman Maze is selling their wheat straw bales for $5.00 each.

Planting vegetables and herbs into the sides of straw bales and calling it a garden is one of the many trends in food gardening right now. Straw bale gardening is unlikely to save you any money and is ...

In this publicity photo provided by Cool Springs Press, Minnesota author and gardener, Joel Karsten, picks tomatoes from his straw bale garden. Karsten is the leading evangelist of a straw-bale ...

Add productive garden space and raise your planting bed with straw bale gardening. This technique allows gardeners to create raised bed gardens on a patio, lawn or any area with poor compacted soil.

CORVALLIS – A lack of space needn’t keep you from a bounty of fresh produce if you turn to straw bales for planting edible gardens. Straw bales take up little space and produce almost anything you can ...

Craig White shows BBC reporter Victoria Gill around one of the new affordable homes made from straw bales The first straw houses in the UK to be offered on the open market are on sale. Though straw ...

Bad soil? Not enough soil? Maybe even no soil? Skip the ground and try planting fruits and vegetables in straw bales instead, suggests Joel Karsten, author of "Straw Bale Gardens" (Cool Springs Press, ...