He and a team of researchers there have built a house made out of straw bale and hemp material.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

(talking) But after doing his own research, he learned that building with straw bales makes a lot of sense.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Doug Akers from the cooperative extension service at Purdue University in Indiana suggests straw or shredded leaves for the mulch.

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He says the current interest in straw bale houses is a direct response to the problem of climate change.

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Now there is new evidence to suggest that houses built with bales of straw can be very strong.

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Then spread loose straw ten to fifteen centimeters deep over the seed pieces and between the planted rows.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

He has now helped to build more than ten straw bale houses and says the building material is becoming more widely accepted.

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The present Taos Pueblo buildings are made of adobe, a mixture of wet dirt and straw.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He says the common ideas about straw houses continue, including stories about the threat of fire.

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If the ground does freeze in your part of the world, simply cover your carrot garden with a thick layer of leaves or straw.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

To build the houses, he fills a wood frame with tightly packed bales of straw.

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Straw is especially popular in places where the clay content of the soil is high.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He says he laughed when some friends first told him about houses built of straw.

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Straw is the dried stem part of plants such as wheat, millet and sorghum.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

It's the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf that blew down a house made of straw and one made of sticks.

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Mister Lanfear says straw bale houses have done well when tested for fire resistance.

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This process produced paper from cloth, straw, wood or the bark of trees.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

One material that is commonly added to strengthen the adobe is straw.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

This process produced paper from cloth, straw,wood or the bark of trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Some gardeners plant potatoes under straw, or stems of dried grain.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Professor Walker says there are many good reasons for using straw.

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Professor Walker says straw takes in carbon dioxide as it grows.

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The potatoes should send up sprouts through the straw cover.

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He says straw helps the environment in other ways.

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Abode is sun-dried earth and straw.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

She said the Obama administration intends to devote hundreds more agents and more effective equipment to stem gun-running across the border and curb illegal purchases in U.S.gun shops by so-called "straw men" fronting for Mexican criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25