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 ...

A customer at Friedman’s Home Improvement store in Santa Rosa on Monday afternoon purchased a tall stack of straw wattles used for erosion control and drove the unwieldy load, wobbling freely, through ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

While a flooded house is a surefire way to have a memorable holiday, sandbags can help protect your home from major damage during the upcoming winter storm. There are locations throughout the county ...

Free straw wattles to control erosion will be available 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in Paradise and Yankee Hill. The Butte County Resource Conservation District will be giving the wattles away at the ...

Selena & salsa market to return to Union Plaza Next Week in Downtown El PasoDowntown El Paso will once again celebrate the music, culture and legacy of Selena Q Gerardo Ortiz to bring 'El Ejemplar ...

Montecito’s tragedy at the beginning of this year raised awareness of dangers posed by rain-driven debris flows. Those whose homes recently survived fires in their area are now especially concerned ...