How Do I Set Up a Backyard Waterfall?

Easy to make and use, homemade garlic-mint garden insect spray was tested on badly attacked basil plants & a vine and worked with only 2 applications!

For off-grid, year-round veggies--even in sub-zero temps--

How To Plant A Tree On A Slope Or Embankment

What's the best way to plant a tree on a hillside? Find out the answer at www.finegardening.com.

Terraced slopes to maximize potential for growth & rainwater infiltration including upper pond & swales. #Permaculture

Roomy bench fitted into a hillside nook.

Willow spiling is the most common and best known green solution for bank revetment. The technique uses woven living willow to form flexible, live, growing structures which resist and deflect water flows, enabling the bank and vegetation to naturally re-generate and stabilize to prevent further erosion. > Wonder if this would work on our mountains of heavily weathered granite...

Soil conservation techniques for hillside farms: Traditional Honduran hill side farming techniques and resulting problems

Concrete wood, as I call it, isn't really wood at all, but concrete used to emulate wood. It was a popular art form in Mexico, where it was called el trabeio rustico. It came to Michigan in the 1930s, when cement tycoon W.H.L. McCourtie hired two Mexican craftsmen to design and build concrete wood bridges on his property in southern Michigan.