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Sod Plow
Because of their root systems, most plain grasses were extremely difficult to turn when plowed for the first time. In the right kinds of soil, they could not be turned with oxen or equines and conventional plows. Sod plows like this one used horizontal plow shares to cut through the roots and turn the ground. This one is of unknown date and origin.
Taken November 30th, 2013.
Laughed out loud when I saw this, but I imagine it was traditionally used for cabin roofs. It's an interpretive sign on the highway south of Denali National Park; I believe it's in Denali State Park. (There are 2 viewpoints shown on the map; it's 50/50 whether I geotagged this as the right one.)
Laying sod at the new turf grass demonstration in front of the 1938-vintage "white house" at Bushland, the original headquarters of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service laboratory built during the Dust Bowl. The project, titled Zoysia Turfgrasses for Residential and Commercial Landscapes in the Texas Panhandle, will be conducted by Dr. Brent Auvermann, Texas A&M AgriLife Research center director, Amarillo; Dr. Ambika Chandra, AgriLife Research turf breeder, Dallas; and Dr. Gary Marek, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service engineer, Bushland.
These are the recreated sod huts of Leif Erikson who landed at L'Anse
aux Meadows around a thousand years ago, nearly 500 years before Columbus
found the New World. Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stein found the
evidence for this being a Viking settlement in the 1960s, and one of
the primary pieces of evidence was the remains of an iron furnace where
bog iron was processed. It's estimated that about 2 - 3 kg of iron
was refined there which seems like a lot of effort for so little.
The Vikings called this place Vinland after the grapes they found.
They say grapes never grew in Newfoundland, but the bakeapples, and
partridge berries, and blueberries grow wild everywhere there and
would make a fine wine for the Vikings who had likely never seen
grapes growing anywhere they had lived. The name L'Anse aux Meadows
comes from the French where it was originally L'Anse aux Medeuse, or
Jellyfish Cove, but meadows does seem to apply here too.
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