How to build retaining walls

Publications

The Art and Craft of Stonescaping: Setting and Stacking Stone, by David Reed. Lark Books, 2000.

Earthship III: Evolution Beyond Economics by Michael E. Reynolds, Solar Survival Press, 1993; www.earthship.com; phone: 800-841-9249.

Basic Masonry. Sunset Publishing Corporation, 1995.

Online

“Projects Online: Building a Dry-Stacked Stone Wall.” Online: www.creativehomeowner.com/index.php?pane=project&projectid=chwlk137. Website of Creative Homeowner.

Sources of salvaged concrete or “urbanite” for terrace retaining walls

Nearby construction zone (ask first).

The landfill (some landfills separate concrete from other wastes, and allow you to take it for free).

Recycler’s World, www.recycle.net.

Craigs List, www.craigslist.org.

Freecycle, www.freecycle.org.

Terracing as infrastructure of traditional community water management

“Trickle-Down Theory, Andean Style: Traditional Irrigation Practices Provide a Lesson in Sharing,” by Paul Trawick. Natural History, October, 2002, pp. 60-65.

The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons, by Paul B. Trawick. Stanford University Press, 2003.

“Trinchera Tradition in the Sierra Madre” by Barney Burns. Seedhead News, Fall Equinox, 2002; Native Seeds/SEARCH, www.nativeseeds.org.