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 ...

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.

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 ...