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@PaulWermer @RolfAE @straphanger

Just read a fantastic one, on the work of John Letts, from 2001:

"No one had excavated a thatched roof before."

"Before systematic crop breeding, cereals evolved into local land races. Different soils, slope, shading and drainage gave endless possibilities for adaptation. With variety in the seed stock, crops would grow differently even across a single farm. Whatever the weather or diseases, something would always flourish."

"Old thatch provides an opportunity to study this lost diversity. Letts often finds a mix of bread wheat, English rivet wheat - not grown commercially for more than a century - rye, oats and barley. He has also found 35 different weeds, from corn cockle and cornflower - now vanished from English farms - to yellow rattle and cow wheat."

theguardian.com/science/2001/m

The Guardian · The last straw?By Guardian staff reporter

Here's the way the #traditional #Thatch house in #Ireland develops normally.

You start by building - with your own hands a one room cottage with a byre attached for housing your animals. Often the byre is on the downhill side so that the animal urine soaks away from the house

As time goes by and you get really modern, you add on a bedroom uphill side, against the fireplace wall.

The next step into the future is...? Well, sadly, the next step will probably be to get rid of the thatch roof.