Stop 1: "Boulder Pile in Old Pasture"

Even when cleared of trees, the relatively thin soil, with many rocks and boulders jutting up, provided only marginal pastureland able to support just a few farm animals. In order to maximize the amount of area for grass growth, most of the early farmers removed as many rocks as possible from the soil. But where to put the rocks? Some were used to build the low stone boundary walls so characteristic of New York and New England. It was also common for farmers to simply collect any rocks that could be moved and pile them on top of an especially large (and immovable) boulder or a bedrock outcrop.

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Stop 1: "Boulder Pile in Old Pasture" is an episode from Walk Back in Time by Christopher Boulton.

This episode is 9:18 long.

This episode was published on May 20, 2018.

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