
The Straworks Difference
Straworks Inc. is one of Ontario’s few established straw bale building companies. We are located in Peterborough, Ontario, and work within an hour of home. We specialize in design, estimating and building to ensure your home is built the way you want it and within your budget. We take pride in our work and have fun doing it, because when built properly, straw works.
Straworks is a different construction company because we “do well by doing good.” That is what Bernard Amadei, the founder of Engineers Without Borders, asks of today’s entrepreneurs and we are proud to fit that description. We build low-impact, super-insulated buildings using natural and local materials, and we forge and maintain excellent relationships between employees, the boss and our clients in the process. Crew members are inspired and challenged by their work and are continually educated in an ever-changing field. We also involve, empower and educate our clients in the construction of their home. The meals that we regularly share and enjoy together is the testimony of our success and fuel for it.
We strive to honour the Treaties our ancestors signed and attempt to see them from the First Peoples perspective. We pay attention to on-going issues caused by colonizers, colonialism and the government and are committed to decolonization.
Straworks’s is grateful to live and work in this beautiful place and is committed to working respectfully with the land and each other, as stewards and neighbours.

Recent Projects

ADDITION TO CENTURY HOME
This is the addition that every growing family who purchases a Century home could use: A mudroom, bathroom, laundry room, garage with living space above and lots of insulation in contrast to the home’s double brick walls. This is one of our only design-estimate-build projects that is not straw bale. The existing footprint left only…Read more

HEADWATERS FARM HOUSE
Our largest and most involved project is also our most natural and locally sourced. The 300 straw bales used to insulate the exterior walls were grown across the road. The same farmer felled pine and cedar trees on the property and milled them for the exterior porches and the cedar shingles. The compressed earth blocks…Read more