Straw Bale Homes and Passive Rainwater Harvesting
Straw Bale Home Construction and Passive Rainwater Harvesting Coverage in Edible San Diego!
Read About Straw Bales and Passive Rainwater Harvesting
We are big fans of the local San Diego magazine, Edible San Diego, so you can imagine our appreciation and excitement when they called to do a story on passive rainwater harvesting and how we apply it in our landscape designs and installs.
What we didn't know was they were also covering straw bale construction, a natural building technique where insulation and mass are of a home are mostly taken up by bound and secured straw bales. And, they not only covered a building technique that we are huge proponents of, but they featured two of our close friends and peers, Mike and Rebecca of Simple Construct who design and build natural, healthy homes.
Straw Bale, Plaster and Natural Building - A perfect fit for most any environment
This is the finished look of a natural plaster, straw bale interior. Warm, comfortable and inviting.
The reason...