Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

A few craftsman in Iceland still practice the technique of building with turf, a tradition believed to date to the ninth century settlement of Europe's most sparsely-populated country. With walls and ...

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Turf homes became popular in Iceland in the 9th century. Vikings brought the grass and mud home design with them from Norway. A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful ...

Throughout Iceland, travelers will find little black “turf houses” with grassy roofs, which often extend all the way to the ground on either side to form one continuous green plane. These traditional ...

A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful volcanoes, Iceland is beautifully raw and remote, but not exactly hospitable to humans. When the Norse and British settlers ...