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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Garden walls
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:38:01 -0700


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








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