One of the biggest changes for us since starting a farm in Upstate New York is our new closeness with the elements. That’s especially true as winter wraps its arms around us. Our comfort–even the viability of our living arrangements here–depends on maintaining a fire in our wood stove and an adequate supply of firewood […]
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Our friend David recently helped clear three big trees off the property. Here’s the pile of firewood that resulted after I spent seven hours running those trees through a log splitter. And here’s my reward: a trip to Rite Aid for a jumbo-sized bottle of ibuprofen.
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When the sun is shining on a cold fall day, this is where I want to be: sitting on a five-gallon bucket with a hatchet, turning odd pieces of firewood into kindling. The chimney expert who installed our new wood stove assured us that commercial fire starters would turn any standard-size log into a roaring […]
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