Tucson is on its way to becoming the world s center for straw-bale construction.
By Kay Sather
JUDY KNOX AND her husband Matts Myhrman say Tucson is on
its way to becoming known world-wide as the center if not quite the
birthplace of straw bale construction. This weekend Out on Bale,
the straw bale education organization they founded here in 1991,
will host a home tour and gathering of the movement s practitioners
from all over the world. The first straw bale structures were built in Nebraska in the
late 1800s by pioneers who considered them a temporary answer
to their need for shelter in areas where wood, and sometimes even