growing sod

Alida Thorpe

A Long Island sod farm.
Something about this makes me sad. I guess I think they should be growing food.

More than one person has asked for the definition of sod.
Sod is grass that is grown for lawns. Here on Long Island, on golf courses everywhere, and around public buildings, people have landscapers put sod on the lawns because it looks better and doesn't have to be started from seed.
It looks perfect from the day it is put down.
It is cut in mats and rolled, or folded and then put down over topsoil. It has to be maintained and watered everyday in the beginning so the roots take hold.
It is just wasted land and wasted water to me, but I guess someone has to grow it!
Long Island used to grow lots of potatoes. Now it's corn, some crops, sod and vineyards!

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