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Architect, designer, and chief builder Missa Aloisi working on an outside wall of the Strawbale Café building at Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, MA.
Architect, designer, and chief builder Missa Aloisi working on an outside wall of the Strawbale Café building at Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, MA.		  

A barn with lilac bushes on the land of Hanging Mountain Farms in Western Massachusetts (Westhampton).
A barn with lilac bushes on the land of
Hanging Mountain Farms in Western Massachusetts (Westhampton).


   Inside view of the Strawbale Café at Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Mass.
Inside view of the Strawbale Cafe at Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Mass.
Designer and builder Missa Aloisi at the top of an outside wall of the Strawbale Cafe.
Designer and builder Missa Aloisi at the top of an outside wall of the Strawbale Cafe.		  

Opening for upstairs window in the Strawbale Café on the grounds of the Hanging Mountain Farms in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.
Opening for upstairs window in the
Strawbale Café on the grounds of the Hanging Mountain Farms in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts.


   Process of cleaning and breaking clay to prepare for mixture to construct the Strawbale Café at Hanging Mountain Farms in western New England (Westhampton, Mass.).
Process of cleaning and breaking clay to prepare for mixture to construct the Strawbale Café at Hanging Mountain Farms in western New England
(Westhampton, Mass.).
The Strawbale Café, built entirely of compressed straw bales and plaster, on the Hanging Mountain Farms land in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
The Strawbale Café, built entirely of compressed straw bales and plaster, on the Hanging Mountain Farms land in Westhampton, Massachusetts.		  

View of back wall with windows and opening to kitchen and bath of the Strawbale Café, part of Westhampton MA's Hanging Mountain Farms.
View of back wall with windows and opening to kitchen and bath of the Strawbale Café, part of Westhampton MA's Hanging Mountain Farms.


   Worker clipping long uneven straw to make wall even during the construction of the Strawbale Café on Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
"Worker clipping long uneven straw to make wall even during the construction of the Strawbale Café on Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Massachusetts.
Worker spraying mud mixture with high power texture sprayer on outside wall as the Strawbale Café is constructed on Hanging Mountain Farms in western Massachusetts.
Worker spraying mud mixture with high power texture sprayer on outside wall as the Strawbale Café is constructed on Hanging Mountain Farms in western Massachusetts.		  

Workers clipping bales of straw on outside of wall of Hanging Mountain Farms' Strawbale Café in New England.
Workers clipping bales of straw on outside of wall of Hanging Mountain Farms' Strawbale Café in New England.


   Workers cutting and retying bales so the shape fits the walls of the Strawbale Café, part of Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Mass.
Workers cutting and retying bales so the shape fits the walls of the Strawbale Café, part of Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton, Mass.
Workers mixing clay sand and water to make mud mixture to apply to walls of the Strawbale Café .at Hanging Mountain Farms in western Massachusetts.
Worker spraying mud mixture with high power texture sprayer on outside wall as the Strawbale Café is constructed on Hanging Mountain Farms in western Massachusetts.		  

Workers taking break on stacked bales as they build the Strawbale Café in Westhampton, MA.
Workers clipping bales of straw on outside of wall of Hanging Mountain Farms' Strawbale Café in New England.


    

 

Red flower blossoms.
Red flower blossoms.		  

Marsh with small island.
Marsh with small island.


   Marsh with tall grass.
Marsh with tall grass.
Sunset with Arch.
Sunset with Arch.		  

Sunset with boat and dock.
Sunset with boat and dock.


   Wood sculpture - driftwood on a dune beach.
Wood sculpture - driftwood on a dune beach.
Windswept dune beach.
Windswept dune beach.