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BIPOC Straw Bale Workshop Scholarships
We offer a limited number scholarships per straw bale workshop season to the BIPOC community. Learn more here.

Home Sweet Home: A Straw Bale Workshop Experience
Awesome article from Sutherland Living Magazine is the creation of a straw bale workshop participant, Tiffany Redding. Her enthusiasm and genuine excitement to learn were contagious during that workshop and she will long be remembered by all of those there. Tiffany’s article, “Home Sweet Home, is reprinted courtesy of Sutherland Living Magazine

Living Simply: Discovering What Really Matters
This is a rather personal blog entry and I hope that you can “hear” it without your filters on. You may agree or disagree with me and that’s fine. What I do hope is that you will ask yourselves some questions and that you will look deeply in what is true FOR YOU.