Author: Joel KarstenPublisher:
ISBN: 1591869072
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Provides information about how to use straw bales as planting containers for vegetable gardening.
Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales
Author: Craig LeHoullierPublisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1612126154
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Straw bale gardening is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and your favorite vegetable seeds! Craig LeHoullier’s step-by-step instructions show you how to do everything from sourcing the straw and setting up your bale to planting, dealing with weeds and pests, and harvesting.
Author: Athena Swentzell SteenBuilding a Straw Bale House
Author: Nathaniel CorumPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568985145
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's successfully completed housing and community-based building projects, Building a Straw Bale House documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook - from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home."--BOOK JACKET.
The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes
Author: Athena Swentzell SteenPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781890132774
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Celebrates the aesthetic styles of straw bale dwellings with numerous color photographs, including both small and large homes and larger-scale institutional buildings. Includes an introductory essay by the authors noting the key lessons they have learned in years of building with bales.
Author: Ted OwensNortheast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
Author: Charlie NardozziPublisher:
ISBN: 1591865298
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book includes more than 60 fruits, vegetables, and herbs selected for growing success in the diverse growing conditions of Northeast gardens. Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening addresses the climate, soil, sun, and water conditions that affect growing success and includes advice for extending the growing season. Each plant profile highlights planting, growing, watering, and care information. Helpful charts and graphs assist gardeners in knowing when to plant and harvest.
Serious Straw Bale
Author: Paul LacinskiPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781890132644
Category : Straw bale houses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bergeron and Lacinski's new book Serious Straw Bale is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. The authors draw upon years of experience with natural materials and experimental techniques, and present a compelling rationale for building with straw-one of nature's most resilient, available, and affordable byproducts.
Strawbale Home Plans
Author: Wayne J. BinghamPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586858612
Category : Straw bale houses
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Strawbale Home Plans is a meditative and conscientious exploration of the innumerable reasons to consider straw bale as a viable building material. Environmentally friendly, super insulative, economical, and natural, straw bale can be used to build everything from garden walls and shed roofs to small homes. The vibrant pages of this practical guide are filled with rich photos of organic, fluid, undulating structures pulsating with subtle creativity. Indeed at once a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, this handbook provides food for the mind and soul.
Practical Straw Bale Building
Author: Murray HollisPublisher: Landlinks Press
ISBN: 0643099476
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Building with straw bales is being embraced by amateurs and professionals for its versatility, comfort, environmental friendliness and high insulation. New methods should expand its growing worldwide popularity. In Practical Straw Bale Building, Murray Hollis uses simple, easy to understand language to describe the established techniques of straw bale construction and ways in which they can be improved. He also presents a new straw bale construction system that has substantial benefits over current methods. This system incorporates a new tensioning system that replaces the use of fence strainers for tensioning the hold-down/compression wires and eliminates uneven tensioning on opposite sides of the wall. It also allows for fabricating wall modules on-site as horizontal modules that are then swung into the vertical wall position after fabrication. Aspects of structures other than walls are addressed only to the extent that they are relevant to the use of straw bales, e.g. issues such as types of floors, roof structures and methods of heating or cooling. The innovative methods in this book will help to progress straw bale building technology and move it into the mainstream of the building industry.
