My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in the ...

Gozo is the proud guardian of a millennia-old craft: the building of drystone walls known as ħitan tas-sejjieħ. Such walls are built with pieces of stone fitted together without mortar. They are also ...