Join Adrienne Stolwyk and Virgil Blower to learn about the many ecological advantages to building with straw and its potential for making healthy, energy-efficient buildings more accessible to the masses.

Prefabricated, straw-insulated buildings have been gaining popularity in Europe for over a decade. This building method is gaining interest in the U.S. and panels are now being produced in Columbia, Missouri via a new start-up: Building Integrity, LLC.

• Wednesday, May 14, 2025

• 100 W Broadway, Columbia Public Library, Friends Room

• 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

• Free and open to the public

• AGE GROUP: Adults

Join us for an open house to walk through Missouri's first prefabricated straw bale structure! 

Talk with the Building Integrity team who constructed the building, folks from Monarch Architecture who executed the design and panel drawings, and the owners/GC of the home (who also operate nearby Cultivate Co).

• Saturday, December 14, 2024

• 9765 S. Smith Hatchery Rd. Columbia, MO (1/2 mile north of Cultivate Co. on the west side of the road)

• 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• Free and open to the public