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Archive Home > 2005 > September > 25 > House of straw

House of straw

Yankus’ straw-bale home a marvel in housing construction, and earth-friendly, too

By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
September 25, 2005

You can huff and puff, but you can't blow the Yankus' straw house down.

At the head of a trend toward "green building," Alan and Maria Yankus of Redmond are building a 3,100-square-foot rye grass home in rural Crook County that will be the first load-bearing straw-bale house in Central....

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