Whether installing new or looking to refresh an existing structure, understand the basic rules and building blocks of your ...

Before you start building a stone retaining wall, it's important to assess your garden's landscape and determine where the wall will be most effective. Take note of any slopes, erosion-prone areas ...

My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

Dry stone walls are resource efficient as they use locally sourced materials, such as concrete slabs that are low in embodied energy. ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called ...

She later recruited the Welsh dry stone wall-maker, to help her build a wall that might serve as a demonstration for clients and other landscape professionals who, like her, want to learn the how ...

An algorithm running on HEAP's control module subsequently determined the best location for each boulder, in order to build a stable 6-meter (20-ft) high, 65-meter (213-ft) long dry-stone wall.