Design and technology are key to making large barns more functional and sustainable. Building or renovating a barn is more ...

When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.

Alec and Claudia Webster of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta) Example of mortise and tenon joinery inside the hay barn, common in 19th century New England construction ...

At 9:03 a.m. a cheer went up: The first timber structure for the revived Cowell Ranch Hay Barn had been hoisted, set, and secured. Working south to north, seven more would follow before lunch, with ...