Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I decided to build an 80-foot-long terrace for fruit trees, and to edge it with a nice fieldstone retaining wall using stones I could find on my property ...
Welcome to the Future Observatory's The Stone Demonstrator, a project conceived to show off the material's strong points, now ...
My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...
Bob Langley spoke to Phil Richards about the importance of dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales and how to go about building them. This was part of The Countryside Hour, first broadcast on 9 October ...
You can learn a lot of interesting things about stone walls in 90 minutes. That’s the message from Kevin Gardner, who will be appearing at on Wednesday night to talk about the stone walls that are ...
A well-constructed stone wall can last for centuries. Use that wall to create a terraced surface where a short, steep and dangerous-to-mow grassy slope once lay. A stone wall also makes a nice ...
If you have ever walked in the woods anywhere in New England, you have likely stumbled into an old stone wall and wondered at their purpose and how they were built. This wonder can be satiated at one ...
WILTON — Weir Farm National Historic Site will host a two-day, hands-on stone wall workshop on Saturday, Oct. 18 and Sunday Oct. 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop will be led by Master Craftsman ...
The robotics experts at ETH Zurich have developed an autonomous excavator that uses advanced AI to help it complete high-skill tasks without a human operator. Dry stone wall construction typically ...