Building a Straw Bale House

The Red Feather group are very active self promoters with high profile connections and alliances. Founder Robert Young has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and was the recipient of Oprah's Angel Network's "Use Your Life Award". This is a documentary about the group that is narrated by Robert Redford. The rock group Pearl Jam has brought awareness of the group to the music community. The book includes instructions that everyone can follow to build their own house. The Red Feather group publish a bi-annual colour magazine. The popularity of straw bale construction is on the rise and it is easy to see why. It is affordable, environmentally sound and an ideal construction technique for those seeking quality housing you can build and maintain yourself. The best examples of straw bale construction can be found in houses built on poverty-stricken American Indian reservations by the award-winning Red Feather Development Group. Through years of research followed by the successful completion of over thirty-five housing and community based building projects, Red Feather has arrived at a straw bale construction prototype that reflects the needs of the communities with whom they work.
This is accomplished by acknowledging the various skills and needs of tribal members, owner/builders, and contractors. This book shows how, with the help of numerous volunteers and neighbours, the houses are constructed step-by-step, bale-by-bale from initial site selection to finished product in just over a month.