unplowed

Much of the book is set in an academic environment and the rest takes place in Brooklyn, neither of which are exactly unplowed territory.

He navigated unplowed streets in a black GMC Sierra pickup and trudged through snowbanks as high as mailboxes to try to find voters who may be open to backing Haley.

More broadly, less than 4 percent of North America’s original tallgrass prairie still exists unplowed.

“I’m going to miss Christmas with my people,” he said, the truck and heat still running as he sat inside in the middle of the unplowed road packed with feet of snow.

One concern is that weeds and pathogens will accumulate in the unplowed fields, requiring more herbicide than conventional rice does.