Straw eco home
Published on 02/05/2008
Dancer swaps the glitz and glamour of Broadway for a straw eco-home in Wales
A group of ‘unskilled’ female volunteers in Wales have spent the past five years constructing an eco-friendly straw house, by hand.
The home is made of straw bales, powered by wind and sunlight, and it is the only load-bearing two-storey straw bale house that stands in the UK.
Rachel Shiamh, the owner, gave up an off-Broadway dancing career along with her Manhattan lifestyle to return to Wales and oversee the project.