Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...

DENTON — The new education building at the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center is no little house on the prairie. At 6,400 square feet, the low-slung building, now under construction, dwarfs the old ...

FAIRBURY — Several large bales of hay and stalks were lost in a storage hoop building fire Sunday afternoon south of Fairbury. Firefighters were called to the structure at Zehr Acres farm around 2 p.m ...

Springdale firefighters responded Friday afternoon to a fire at a chicken house on 64th St., south of Highway 412. The structure is full of hay bales.

So it's time to plant and you haven't even tilled your garden yet, or maybe don't even have a garden space to till. Straw bales can offer a temporary planting option to see you through the season.

30 October 2020, Lower Saxony, Ronnenberg: Bales of straw, decorated with faces, lie at the edge of a field. Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/dpa (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/picture alliance via Getty ...