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Gardening & Foraging for Life · May 24, 2026

The Strawbale Experiment Part 1.

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The Strawbale Experiment Part 1.

Most of the details of this story are in the individual ‘notes’ linked below. However, there are also original photos here, which are not found in any of the notes. To read everything on each note simply click the note, and the full chapter should open in a new tab. There are no paywalls nor advertising on the notes.

This has been a little adventure, which hasn’t gone exactly as planned.

Here’ an example of what the bed looked like before we installed the strawbale in one end.

Back to the strawbale, photos below from 12-12-25.

While this ‘next’ note was written well before the ‘note’ above, it tells the next part of the story. The photo below was taken on or about 12-12-25.

Once I realized that stomping on its own wasn’t going to fix the problem, I started pulling out handfuls of straw and tossing them on to the rest of the bed. The bale was super compressed, and made out of short lengths of straw, so it was easy to pull out handfuls. In the photo below, the strawbale ends a little befo…

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