She has now built and is settled in her straw bale house.

Everything from straw bale homes to new eight-star designs, battery storage and draught proofing will be showcased at the online event.

After living for 30 years in Motueka, New Zealand author Jillian Sullivan moved to Central Otago and built a straw bale house.

It appears that the engine of Humphries' 250cc Honda seized up, causing the machine to hit a straw bale protecting a concrete post.

The animal, stabled in a separate room in his tukul, got frightened when a search party entered and kicked over a straw bale.

Conservation biologist who lives off the grid in a straw bale house in New Mexico, raising small livestock and interacting with his rural community.

When he cut the twine, the straw bales opened into golden sheaves.

He sank onto a pair of straw bales and drew his knees to his chest.

He walked between straw bales scattered across the mow floor, then stopped and looked into the rafters.

A unit load of straw bales arrived from Manawatū this week to help with extra feed during calving.

Several nearer straw bales scattered downrange.

Community architecture doesn't have to mean scaffolding planks, straw bales and bits from a skip nailed together ad hoc.

Edgar dragged himself through morning chores, lining the pens with the straw bales he'd slept on before the fight.

Paloma Gormley and Lettice Drake of Practice Architecture make a theatre out of straw bales in a disused car park.

You want the straw bales to be able to stay freezing cold on the outside and yet insulate the produce inside.

"Porter, you leave her alone," he wailed, rocking side to side on the straw bales.