Strawbale Shed
Cal Native Hort is honored to be a part of the Landscape Recovery Center at Eaton Canyon. We are building a 120’ square foot Strawbale demonstration shed with Levi Brewster, garden educator and building contractor, this summer.
It will be made of densely packed straw bale building, sealed within a natural plaster, creating walls with exceptional thermal mass and low flammability. Unlike the wood-frame construction that characterizes most of what burns in wildland-urban interface fires, strawbale walls offer fire resistance ratings of two hours or more. The plaster skin is non-combustible; the compressed straw within is oxygen-starved and slow to ignite. A strawbale building is not fireproof, but it is fire-resilient in a way that conventional wood construction rarely achieves.