Who needs brick or timber when you’ve got sod? We learned about this structure while in the grasslands of Kansas. In pioneer days where trees weren’t available to build cabins, settlers used the abundant resource under their feet…the thick-rooted prairie grass. They cut strips of sod, layering them upon one another to form walls. Stucco was often eventually added to the outer, and sometimes inner, walls. Some houses apparently remain standing to this day with sod inside the walls!