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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Feb 21, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > The Nearings constructed slipform stone/concrete walls that are  
> > > faster and
> > stronger. It takes fewer stones, but you need concrete.
>
> And yet, to fence in a 100' x 100' garden took them 14 years.  Also,  
> if you
> read the account by the Nearings themselves, it sounds like they did  
> it all
> themselves, just the two of them.  But in reality all during that  
> time they had
> as many as 30 people staying at their place for a few days or a few  
> months and
> these sojourners did most of the work.

The modern way is the easy way, which is to say buy materials that go  
up fast. The new world economy will change that.

In a post long ago I gave my design for a permanent, solid garden  
wall: two ferro fences a foot apart with the space between filled with  
stones, detritus, bottles, cans, anything solid and non-polluting,  
although once the wall is capped with masonry it becomes a sealed  
vault and the contents inert. I haven't made mine yet but the new web  
site will report on such projects as they come to fruition.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com