“Atlas Turf grows its grass in Adel, a town of about 5,000 people in southern Georgia. At 90 days, the stolons, or sprigs of grass, are harvested, washed, packed into boxes and shipped by refrigerated air cargo to Doha. The first shipment went to Al-Rayyan Stadium in 2014. Over the next few years, Atlas Turf sent a total of 305,000 pounds of stolon to Doha. There, the grass is planted in fields next to each stadium until the individual sprigs knit together into a field. They are then rolled up transferred to inside the stadiums, and unrolled into the equivalent of 178 acres of field.” 

How a Georgia company grew the grass for the World Cup—and then flew it to Qatar [Quartz]