If you want less lawn, there are five ways to kill grass without digging it all up. Learn about the pros and cons of these ...

Protect Your Grass. Bricks and stone can really tear up grass. If you’re not careful, you’ll have to lay new sod.Plywood keeps shards and soil from mingling with grass and makes it easy to ...

Today, we think of them as the settler's last ditch alternative to wood and brick structures, but 140 or 150 years ago that was not necessarily the case. Of, course wood was scarce and brick ...

Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they're working with a team of archaeologists and ...

The now popular “green” idea of having your lawn or other greenery on your roof would not surprise Colorado’s sod house pioneers. Nor are solar buildings that new.

CHARLES CITY | Charles City High School students are learning first-hand about pioneer life.

Some sod houses have been plastered over, fitted with new roofs and are still in use; unrestored examples are extremely rare. The skeletal remains here are those of a coyote. Edgar Simon ...