In this episode I finally get to the step in the build process that I've been fantasizing about for years and that is putting the sod walls in. It was so much more challenging than I anticipated. Two things I didn't foresee involved the sod itself. The sod here isn't as high of quality as the sod the pioneers would have had because the top soil here is actually just dust from the 1930's dust bowl but it doesn't hold together for another reason. This land was over grazed by cattle in the 1950's and the cattle ate all the good native grasses which left only the weeds with poor root systems. Dust and short roots don't make for good sod bricks but it seems to have worked out.