To make sloping land arrable one of the things you can do is to terrace it. The practice of terracing Cévennes mountainsides, by building dry-stone retaining walls, goes back hundreds of years. One of our priorities here has been to re-build the dilapidated dry stone walls supporting the new growing areas: Potager, Verger and Polytunnel. With [...]
Repairing Walls
One of my favourite jobs around this place is repairing the dry stone walls that make the sloping land into a series of terraces. A pile of rubble can be transformed into a beautiful wall that looks like it has always been there. Some take quite a bit of time being over 12ft high but [...]
Warming Walls
Stone walls can be used as protection for overwintering and early fowering plants and trees. During the day the stones absorb the heat from the sun and at night the heat radiates back out to keep the less frost hardy plants warm in winter and early spring. Walls can be used as a backdrop for plants that [...]
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