Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

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 ...

Building a retaining wall can be an expensive, labor intensive job, but it doesn't have to be difficult to figure out. Here are some basic steps, according to landscape contractors Douglas Karge and ...