Entrepreneur turns straw into wattles BELFIELD, N.D. -- As Kurt Kordon was driving down the road he noticed the straw wattles -- long, thin straw bales seen in the ditches and medians along the ...

I don’t like to use redwood lumber as garden bed edging any more than necessary, and especially not 2-by-12 lumber, which needs to come from larger trees. The solution I’ve found is straw wattles.

Local hardware and garden supply stores are selling more sandbags and other erosion control items as another storm makes its way toward the Central Coast. The coming weekend storm follows a storm that ...

At Feb. 27’s Solana Beach City Council meeting, 24 seventh and eighth-grade students from Earl Warren Middle School presented a recommendation to further the city’s commitment to reducing plastic by ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: While driving east on Thompson Street we noticed some straw ropes around some of the telephone poles, especially ...

College-bound high school seniors in El Paso will can now apply for the Dr. Xavier De La Torre Leader of Impact Scholarship.The $2,000 annual award was establi PAM Health Rehabilitation Hospital host ...

The word wattle has three meanings. It can be a fleshy protuberance hanging from the head or neck of several birds or mammals. It is the common name of many species of the plant genus Acacia. And it ...

Stacy Levy's Straw Garden: from Wattle to Watershed is on view for just one more week at Seattle Center's Broad Street Green. Beginning Nov. 16, the artist will disassemble the wattlestightly wrapped ...