Sod is a strange and satisfying kind of farming: you grow a field for a couple of seasons, then roll it up in the cool of the morning and carry it to somebody's bare front yard. The ground around New Hudson gives good turf, and Cash Sod Farm works it — sod grown, cut, delivered and laid tight across a fresh grade so the seams knit shut within weeks. New lawn installation is the heart of it, along with the follow-up care that gets young turf rooted through its first summer. There is a moment when the last piece goes down and a mud lot becomes a lawn in a single afternoon, and it never gets old. Then the sprinklers come on, and this stretch of Oakland County has one more green yard on it.