What is a dry stone wall? A dry stone wall is built with only one ingredient - natural stone. There’s no mortar gluing everything together or backup made of concrete blocks. How does it stay up? You ...

This class on Saturday is a little spendy ($90, including lunch), but I've always wanted to build a stone wall across the front yard. Haven't you? A talk on the ancient art of dry stack stone walls ...

Ever heard of dry stone walling? It’s worth investigating if you’re looking for a ruggedly beautiful, green type of fence that stands the test of time. Read our interview with John Bland of Montreal’s ...

Your garden wants bones as much as blossoms. Edges that hold their line when the winter rain turns paths to porridge, and a place for birds and beetles to tuck in. A dry‑stone wall built from natural ...

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 ...

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

“The Stones. I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney ...” ­­— Comic Steven Wright I like the Stones, too. And the Beatles and The Who and, at least some of the time, Pink Floyd ...

For 21 years, Trent Rosenbloom has scurried up the ridges that gird West Meade. The hills rise sharply from the hollows and bottomlands between Belle Meade and Bellevue, Highway 70 cresting ...