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Hunker down in your own hobbit house for $190K

McGuire constructed the 2,236-square-foot home as an energy-efficient type of “sod house” that uses arching steel culverts as its structural system. The two culverts are side by side—linked by a laund... read more

Lyle Fodnes

Lyle John Fodnes was born April 30, 1936, to Walter and Ida (Iversen) Fodnes in a sod house at the Iversen farm in Berea. He graduated from Alliance High School in 1953 and from Midland Lutheran ... read more

Botany File #1: The Seed Has to Be Buried

Now, I am not an archaeologist, but I think I figured out a logical explanation. It would seem that the builders of the sod houses perhaps had eaten salmon berries somewhere and brought the seeds insi... read more

Bringing the prairie home: Rebekah Rolland on 'Seed & Silo'

She’s talking about her new album, Seed & Silo. Sketched during her artist residency at the Homestead National Monument outside Lincoln, Nebraska, Seed & Silo is a study of the sod-house chapter in U. ... read more

Sod House Theater to perform in Mankato next week

MANKATO — Sod House Theater started off as an idea to perform “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov in a mansion as the set in Minneapolis. Well, that was expensive. That’s when founders Darcey Engen ... read more

The Minnesota woman behind iconic sod house photo has quite the tale

Beret Olsdatter Hagebak spent 31 of her 93 years in that soddy out on the prairie, 140 miles west of Minneapolis. At 90, Carol Hagebak Olson is losing her eyesight. But one image remains clear in her ... read more

Sod house on the prairie: Hunter man’s mother was girl in iconic homestead photo

HUNTER – Growing up, Donald Aune would hear stories from his mother about the sod house she lived in as a child in the late 1800s near Milton. She talked about how cozy it was despite the harsh prairi... read more

Sod house, mountain wagon on display in park

It wasn’t a windswept prairie. No pioneers were working to build a home in which they’d spend cold winters and hot summers. Instead, the grass was green and short and a group of volunteers were buildi... read more

Sod House Theater's 'The Hoopla Train' tries to get reserved Minnesota crowds dancing

Sod House Theater, a group dedicated to serving greater Minnesota, created the show for a 2015 tour. Now, for the first time, city slickers in Minneapolis and St. Paul can hop on the train. The Seward ... read more

Sod house-owning family to receive heritage award

Sod houses once dotted the Prairies, but now only one remains standing near Kindersley, Sask. It belongs to Lenore McTaggart's family. Her grandfather, James Addison, was a carpenter from Liverpool, E... read more

Lyle John Fodnes

Lyle John Fodnes was born April 30, 1936 to Walter and Ida (Iversen) Fodnes in a sod house at the Iversen farm in Berea, NE. He graduated from Alliance High School in 1953 and from Midland Lutheran Co... read more