The Straworks Difference

Straworks Inc. is one of Ontario’s few straw bale-building companies, and we work within a 60 km radius of Peterborough, Ontario. Since 2004, we have designed, estimated, and built 15 straw bale buildings from start-to-finish, and done the bale work or the plastering on another 20. We take pride in our work and showcase it at every opportunity because when built properly, straw works.

Straworks is a different construction company because we “do well by doing good.” That is what the founder of Engineers Without Borders, Bernard Amadei, asks of today’s entrepreneurs. We are proud to fit that description. We build carbon-storing, high-performing buildings of primarily natural and local materials, and we do this by forging and maintaining excellent working relationships. Crew members are inspired and challenged by their work in an ever-changing field. We involve, empower and educate our clients in the process. Meals enjoyed together are the testimony of our success and the fuel for it.

Straworks respectfully acknowledges that we live and work in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagig Anishnaabeg.

We strive to honour the Treaties our ancestors signed and to attempt to see them from the First Peoples’s perspective. We pay attention to ongoing issues caused by colonizers, colonialism, and the government and are committed to decolonization.

Straworks’s is grateful to live in this beautiful place and is committed to working respectfully with the land and each other as stewards and good neighbours.