Crunchy Chicken goes “Little House” with Pioneer Week
Okay, so Crunchy Chicken is just thinking about another Pioneer Week low-impact, off-grid practice experience.
But she does outline some important lessons for living a frugal and sustainable life. “Little House on the Prairie” stories nicely illustrate the 10 lessons she found.
Sod.
So I got to thinking. How much sod does it take to make a sod house or sod hut? If you life in a sod house, do you bite your tongue instead of observing, “Dear, there seems to be something growing on the wall.”??
Can you use straw bales for insulation and structure with a sod house? If you drop a bit of sod, and it breaks, does that make you a sodbuster?
Should the roof on a sod house be sod, thatch, or should it be rock (slate)?
Do you paint a sod house, or water it?
Yes, I am being facetious. Well, mostly. The questions might sound silly, but I do kinda want to know. And I figure the amount of sod needed “depends”. Like, how thick the sod is where you dig it up. Like how wide you make your walls. Like how big you want the structure, and how many rooms, I guess.
And is building sod houses where the phrase comes from, “Oh, sod it all!”??
Enjoy!
