In the yard, a retaining wall serves a very simple purpose: to hold soil back to better utilize the terrain. From foot-high garden borders to towering walls that enclose an entire property, retaining ...

A local stone wall located on the edge of a field, each stone placed by a Yankee farmer well over a century ago. Credit: James W. Spain / For the Monitor Sit with me upon my stone wall under this ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...