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I have moved a lot soil around on our sloped lot over the years. You don't have to move much to make terraces and you can do it as you go a little at a time as money, salvaged bricks, rocks, etc become available. Last year was the first time I actually bought new bricks to make a wall that varies from 8" to 2 1\2'. It is a little more than 30' long.
. I picked my area that would be flat and tossed the dirt up making kind of a path to work from. After I had the bottom area flattened almost to the shape/height I wanted I laid the bricks and the did the final dirt tossing and raking smooth. Since my soil is loam it was accomplished in a week-end (if you don't count the couple of months of cardboard layering to get rid of sod) here are a few other pictures of terracing from around the yard. I have never bought soil. I just move and smooth.



this last photo is the first area picture a year later. In some areas the moss is beginning to take on the cement blocks. That's our Doberman, Ciara in her fashionable pink winter sweater.

Here is my next terracing project. Believe it or not the ground falls about 12" or more from right to left. I have some standard cement foundation blocks I'll be using with flat cement pavers to cover up the holes.