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Eve's Garden Organic Bed & Breakfast and Ecology
Your Host(s): Clyde Curry
Location: Marathon, TX
Rooms: 5
Nightly Rates: $155 to $195   
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Description: A strawbale/adobe house can take the heat of West Texas summers and the cold out of chill desert nights. Straw not only serves as a great insulating material - the walls have an R-50 rating - but it’s sustainable as well. Excess straw was once burned, which contributed to air pollution. Today it more and more is being used as a green building material, both as bales and in composition board.
The house’s design is “Pueblo Revival,” with handmade adobe floors, kiva fireplace and stone patio. The builder, Clyde Curry, incorporated historic windows from an original schoolhouse, and they afford residents desert and mountain views. Energy efficient, the house costs about $65 a month, winter and summer, to heat or cool. It’s on about a half-acre lot.
Other Amenities: The Adobe Posada — a complete home that sleeps 4. The master bedroom has one queen size bed and a private bath. The second bedroom has 2 full size beds and an adjacent bath. The staff at Natural Home Magazine says this home is beautiful! Full kitchen, washer and dryer, kiva fireplace, cable TV, fish pond and private patio. Coffee, tea, and fresh flowers provided.
The Lotus Suite — beautiful classical vaulted architecture, built of papercrete, with stained glass windows. Two adjoining bedrooms, one queen bed, one full bed, and private bath with shower. Full breakfast.
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