The desire to have a bit of land to call your own is not an uncommon one. However, in the Bay Area, finding our own personal outdoor space can be a challenge. Some of us live in newer housing ...

This is the last of three stories on terracing hillsides. To read the first two stories, "Slippery slopes" and "Know your hillside," go to sfgate.com and type in Deborah K. Rich. "Almost all ...

Dirt Locker ®, a modular hillside terracing system developed by Mark Trebilcock, reframes land use in Los Angeles with the premise that the usefulness of terrain depends on how well it holds together ...

Hillside gardening requires a little more of the gardener: more attention to safety, more specialized techniques for stabilizing the slope, and in many cases, more money. It may sound exhausting, but ...