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Fall Decorating Ideas: Creative Ways to Use Straw Bales

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Bring Fall to Life with Straw Bales from Burns Feed Store 🍂🌾

Fall is one of the best times of year to get outdoors, decorate your home, and enjoy everything the season has to offer. And one of the easiest—and most versatile—ways to add that classic fall look is with straw bales from Burns Feed Store!

Whether you’re decorating your front porch, creating a festive backyard gathering area, preparing for a fall event, or looking for practical uses around your property, straw bales are an affordable and incredibly useful fall staple.

🍁 The Perfect Fall Decoration 

Nothing says fall quite like a few straw bales surrounded by pumpkins, mums, corn stalks and autumn decorations.

Use straw bales to create a beautiful fall display on your front porch or driveway. Stack them in different configurations and add:

  • 🎃 Pumpkins and gourds
  • 🌼 Fall mums and seasonal flowers
  • 🌽 Corn stalks
  • 🍂 Hay or straw-themed decorations
  • 🪵 Lanterns and rustic signs
  • 🧡 Seasonal wreaths
  • 👻 Halloween decorations

A couple of strategically placed straw bales can turn an ordinary entryway into a warm, rustic fall display.

🎃 Create the Ultimate Pumpkin Display

Heading out to the pumpkin patch? Bring your pumpkins home and put your straw bales to work!

Use bales as risers and platforms to display pumpkins at different heights. Add mums, gourds and corn stalks, and you’ve got an easy DIY fall display that looks great without spending a fortune on decorations.

It’s also a great backdrop for those classic family fall photos!

👻 Take Your Halloween Decorations to the Next Level

Straw bales aren’t just for pumpkins. They’re perfect for Halloween decorating, too.

Create a spooky hay-bale scene in your yard, build a small Halloween display, or use straw bales as seating around a backyard fire pit or Halloween gathering.

Add some lights, skeletons, scarecrows and other decorations, and you’ve got a festive setup that can easily transition from Halloween into Thanksgiving.

🦃 Thanksgiving & Fall Gatherings

Planning a fall party, harvest gathering or Thanksgiving celebration?

Straw bales make great casual outdoor seating when covered with blankets, quilts or outdoor cushions. Arrange them around a fire pit, outdoor table or gathering area to create a comfortable, rustic atmosphere.

They’re especially handy for large outdoor events where you need additional seating without renting chairs.

🌾 Practical Uses Around the Property

Straw bales aren’t just decorative. They have plenty of practical uses around the home, garden and property.

Depending on your needs, straw can be used for:

  • Garden and landscape mulch
  • Winter protection for certain plants
  • Erosion control
  • Composting and organic material
  • Creating temporary barriers
  • Animal bedding where appropriate
  • Garden pathways
  • Fall and winter landscaping projects

Always choose the appropriate type of straw for your intended use, especially when using it around animals or gardens.

📸 Build a Fall Photo Spot

Want to create an easy fall photo backdrop?

Stack a few straw bales, add pumpkins, mums, a rustic sign and some corn stalks, and you’ve got a great DIY fall photo booth for family pictures, parties, school events or community gatherings.

The best part? You can rearrange and reuse the bales throughout the season.

🧡 Don’t Forget the Scarecrow!

A straw bale display isn’t complete without a classic scarecrow.

Use straw bales as the base of your display and add a scarecrow, pumpkins, corn stalks and other fall decorations. It’s an easy project the whole family can get involved with—and it looks fantastic in the front yard.

🌾 Get Your Fall Straw at Burns Feed Store

Whether you’re looking for straw for your animals, your garden, your property, or your fall decorating project, Burns Feed Store has you covered.

Stop by Burns Feed Store and pick up your straw bales today. Get creative and make your home, yard or next fall event look like autumn!

Fall is here—grab some straw, bring home some pumpkins, and start decorating! 🍂🎃🌾

Burns Feed Store — Your local source for feed, farm, garden and seasonal supplies.

Certified Weed Free Orchard Grass & Straw at Burns Feed Store

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Why Weed Free Forage?

Using weed free forage is a proactive method of preventing our natural and working lands from invasion by noxious weeds. Our natural and working lands are especially vulnerable following catastrophic events like wildfire and flooding and using weed free forage can help mitigate the risk of invasion during recovery. Using weed free forage also ensures that you are providing the most nutritious and palatable version of a product to your livestock, free of undesirable and sometimes toxic weeds. For producers, ODA’s Weed Free Forage and Gravel Program provides an opportunity to add value to your products while contributing to overall ecosystem resilience.

Certified weed free hay and straw are in high demand in Oregon and throughout the western states. The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) Weed Free Forage & Gravel Program, as part of an integrated weed management approach, helps limit the spread of noxious weeds and protect Oregon agriculture. The ODA follows the standards set by the North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA; www.naisma.org). Additionally, inspections include Oregon’s listed ‘A’ and ‘B’ listed noxious weeds which can be found at www.oda.direct/NoxiousWeedProfiles

In Oregon, individuals utilizing livestock, horses, or pack animals on U.S. Forest Service land, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, and designated Wilderness Areas are required to use certified weed-free forage. This regulation aims to prevent the spread of invasive plant species. Additionally, this requirement extends to contractors engaged in public projects, recreational outfitters, and anyone transporting hay or forage across public lands for any purpose.

 

Planning Your Straw Bale Garden for Next Spring

Gardeners, are you already preparing for next spring’s Straw Bale Garden? Here’s something to consider: it’s crucial to use weed-free straw bales for your garden. Weeds are one of the main issues this gardening method aims to combat. Conventional straw bales can contain unwanted seeds that may germinate once the conditioning process begins.

Benefits of Straw Bale Gardening

By selecting the right bales and conditioning them correctly, you can fully enjoy the benefits of straw bale gardening:

  • Fewer weeds:The most significant advantage is a substantial reduction in weeds, as you’re not working with traditional soil.
  • Less soil trouble: This method is ideal for areas with poor or rocky soil.
  • Reduced pest and disease issues: Planting above ground can help minimize problems associated with soil-borne diseases.
  • Improved accessibility: The elevated height of the bales makes gardening easier on your back.

 

At Burns Feed Store, we currently have in stock Certified Weed Free Orchard Grass as well as a Certified Weed Free Straw.