AnderWood Grass Roof

by Kari
(Muscatine, IA)

AnderWood Grass Roof
Anna, Sarah, Ethan & Andrew


Mark was gracious to me when I asked for a grassroof on our new woodshed. I'd seen grassroofs in Norway, even on new houses, and really liked them. They just look so classy and practical. Where else can a goat graze in private?

Well, these aren't goats and they aren't grazing, but Anna, Sarah, Ethan and Andrew enjoyed the sunshine on Sarah's last day before leaving for Volda, Norway, where she'll be working on our cousin, Ragnar Aarflot's farm for six weeks as a part of her agricultural training.

The roof took some doing and lots of research but it came off nicely. In Norway the hardware stores are filled with the right layers for such things. Cousin Kai Bue, from Stavanger, spent much time with me explaining how these things were made and getting me samples of the correct building material to use....although, these things weren't available here in Muscatine...yet.

I loved the open air museum in Alesund, Norway with the many old-timey Norwegian cottages and their grassroofs....and now we have our own.

When I go out the back basement door of our house to the woodpile, I often think of Norway...and now I will even more so.

Enjoy my cousin, Anne Greta's website about her native Norway here.