How to Prepare Your Firewood Supply
Burning wet wood is one of the two top barriers to pleasurable, efficient woodburning (the other is badchimneys). Your wood heater can only…
Gathering Low Cost Firewood
By John R. Horton Fireplaces and wood stoves are more efficient with each new decade. Heatilators, inserts, blowers, and a host of heating…
Firewood: How and What to Buy
By Ray Lagoe Like any business the firewood industry has developed a language all its own. For the novice wood buyer this terminology…
Cookstove Lore
By Don Fallick Wood-fired cookstoves have been around a long time, and, as the song demonstrates, there’s more than one way to make…
BUILD YOUR OWN ROCKET STOVE
Why? – Rocket Stoves are: Fuel Efficient: Because they direct all the heat energy (from the flames) upward, most of the heat actually…
Heat, Light and Power
HeatIf you burn anything larger than candles in your house, make sure to provide adequate ventilation. Try opening a window a crack on…
Making Soap
The intention here is to provide the basic data on how to make soap from the most basic materials.There are many fancier soap…
CANDLE MAKING
Margaret Bass IntroductionIn the past, candles were made from beeswax obtained from the honeycombs of bees or tallow produced from the suet of…
Making Yogurt at Home
by Julie Cascio and Roxie Rodgers Dinstel, Extension FacultyHealth, Home and Family Development Yogurt (also spelled yogurt or yoghurt) is a semi-solid fermented…