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Single women or heads of households could take up homesteads. About one in ten homesteaders was a woman. Most did not wish to work the land themselves but though ownership could bring security. Often sisters filed adjacent claims and worked them together.
Sod roofs are typical of the Faroe Islands. Traditionally the roof is covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark over gently sloping wooden roof boards. However, modern turf roofs often use a type of commercial roofing felt underneath the sod. Sod is also an effective insulator in a cold climate. Typically, a sod roof will last about 10 or more years before it has to be replaced. Some residents actually mow their roofs to keep them looking good.
I had a pint of this dark beer at Wetherspoons in Maindee, Newport during the current Beer Festival.
Cost £1.89 which is pretty good.
It is brewed by Banks & Taylor of Shefford, Bedfordshire.
SOD stands for Shefford Old Dark which refers to the style of the beer which I suppose is something like a strong, dark mild.
From Wikipedia:
The sod house or "Soddy" was a corollary to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the United States and Canada. The prairie lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone; however, sod from thickly-rooted prairie grass was abundant.[1] Prairie grass had a much thicker, tougher root structure than modern landscaping grass.
Construction of a sod house involved cutting patches of sod in rectangles, often 2'×1'×6" (600×300×150mm) long, and piling them into walls. Builders employed a variety of roofing methods. Sod houses could accommodate normal doors and windows. The resulting structure was a well-insulated but damp dwelling that was very inexpensive. Sod houses required frequent maintenance and were vulnerable to rain damage. Stucco or wood panels often protected the outer walls. Canvas or plaster often lined the interior walls.
In the United States, the terms of the Homestead Act offered free farmland to settlers who built a dwelling and cultivated the land for five years. Related straw-bale construction developed in Nebraska with early baling machines and has endured as a modern building material. Sod houses achieved none of the nostalgia that log cabins gained, probably because soddies and pottys were much more subject to dirt and infestations of insects. Early photographs record some sod houses; otherwise, they have all but disappeared from the landscape.
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The sod was laid in a matter of hours! But remember, this rear yard has no irrigation system. Never needed one. So Client has been advised (numerous times) that he will need to water the sod. We set him up with an email reminder system for the first few weeks & stopped by every few days to check on it.