From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] [Homestead=trees/fencing
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:59:21 -0500
My backyard fence is concrete block and seven foot tall (5.5 on the sides
and 6 on the front). I guess stone fences in new england would be the
rural equivalent. Way too expensive for size.
New England drystone fences are free. The stones are picked from the fields
as they are plowed...there's where having lots of kids comes in handy. In
some places, stone is a better crop than anything the farmer plants. The
wall can take years to build. I'd love to have one, but I don't plow up
large areas, so I only have the stones from my garden area (I could still
build a nice little wall, though, just from them).