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Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.
A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas, is a sod house that was built c. 1907.. It is a one-story building with a gabled rectangular section about 48 by 19 feet (14.6 by 5.8 m) with 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) sod brick walls, plus a 16-by-10-foot (4.9 by 3.0 m) wood-frame lean-to section, all covered by a corrugated, galvanized metal roof.
Powell Gardens, Kansas City's botanical garden, is a 970-acre (3.9 km 2) botanical garden in Kingsville, Missouri, United States, 30 miles (48 km) east of Kansas City. It features 6,000 varieties of plants, with 225,000 plants in seasonal displays, and is open to the public, for a fee, during daylight hours.
Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm is a historic farm and sawmill and national historic district located in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways near Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri. The district encompasses three contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and one contributing structure associated with an early-20th century Ozark farm and mill.
The Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with exhibits and tours of the multi-story cash vault. Irish Museum and Cultural Center located in Kansas City's Union Station. Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, local area history and natural sciences museum in a Beaux-Arts mansion.
Kansas City, Missouri has nearly 240 neighborhoods [1] including Downtown, 18th and Vine, River Market, Crossroads, Country Club Plaza, Westport, the new Power and Light District, and several suburbs.
A post office called Orchard Farm was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1953. [2] The community was so named on account of orchards near the original town site. [ 3 ]