You should also check with your local building inspector. Sometimes
walls need to be "engineered". That is have supports or slope a
certain way. The Inspector can make you change it -- best to do it in
the design phase rather than after you build it.

jeffc wrote:
How hard is it to rent some sort of bobcat or whatever and dig out a sloped
yard to add terracing bricks and make flat spots separated by a wall or two?