It includes sod roofs, a row of oblique projecting windows and an organic entrance canopy.
The National Sod House Society promotes conservation but lacks the funds to do so effectively.
Fake grass costs nearly twice as much as sod to install, though it costs less to maintain.
The first sod of the new trails was turned by Prime Minister John Key in late 2009.
The first sod of the Springvale campus was cut in 1998 by the then US President Bill Clinton.
These are people making money running boring businesses like manufacturing boilers or laying sod at corporate office parks.
Homeowners in California and New York--and even Ohio--are turning over the sod and clearing brush to do the same.
Even a millionaire will feel miserable in the company of billionaires, poor sod.
Openleaks is to Wikileaks what the Rollex some dodgy sod tried to sell me in the pub is to Rolex.
Many industries, like the boiler manufacturers and sod growers, hold three to four day events at resort hotels around the country.
Why does Oxford, as in the old SOD, list words ending in -ise as variants of the same word spelt with -ize?
Now known as the Sod House Museum, it is open to the public six months a year and attracts nearly 60, 000 visitors.
Settlers would stack brick upon brick of sod about an acre's worth until they had a home, then plant crops in the rich undersoil.
Both families had lived in sod houses when they arrived in Nebraska.
When Revis planted his left foot into the sod, his left knee buckled, and he dropped to the ground, writhing there for several minutes.
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It is no longer easy to build a sod house, though that didn't stop Merle Block from trying it himself about a decade ago.
Republicans have blasted numerous measures in the package, such as funding for veterans in the Philippines, sod on the National Mall and honey bee insurance.
The 180-member National Sod House Society, located in Holdrege, Nebraska, sponsors field trips to sod houses, as well as model-building and essay-writing by local youngsters.
Mr Block does not live in his sod house though he has brought his grandchildren, nieces and nephews to spend the night on beds with corn-husk mattresses.
Sod-busters, explains Mr Woolsey, is a south-western term for farmers.
And the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team is set for its June 18 home opener, though it's unclear whether its damaged field will be replaced with sod or artificial turf.
He looked at a collection of settlers' photographs taken in the late 1800s by Solomon Butcher, whose work is by far the most important documentary tool for sod-house researchers.
"The entire process will be subjected to a long and drawn-out process in the courts... no sod will be turned, " he told a meeting with stadium planning officials on Tuesday.
For the new sod, the club paid for strips of grass that were 4 feet wide and 60 feet long to reduce the number of seams, even though it was the most costly.
The greens on Nos. 8 and 10 had to be replaced by sod just last week in fact, the 10th green had to be re-sodded twice because the roots were growing sideways.
It took him and a 16-year-old neighbour three weeks to pile 1, 400 pieces of sod in all, 78 tonnes of material into a house of less than 200 square feet (18 square metres) with walls that were three feet thick.
Mr Block, who manages a Pony Express station in Gothenburg, Nebraska, decided to build a sod house of his own after studying letters from his ancestors, who came from Germany, and those of his wife Linda, from Sweden.
If the cost of tenting, outdoor bathrooms and county permits isn't enough to send a wedding budget spiraling out of proportion, Walter Reeves says to factor in the cost of renting an aerator or even investing in new sod.
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