How to Use Wood Ashes in the Home and Garden: The Ultimate Guide
Many people nowadays don’t give much thought about how to use wood ashes in their home and garden. With the invention of electricity our society has learned to depend more and more on electric heat and less and less on wood heat. But, there’s a rising...
How to Stack Firewood for the Best Results
Stacking firewood is not only a necessary part of heating your home with wood but it can also be a great outlet for artistic expression. Stacking firewood may seem like a pretty simple thing, but how and where you stack it is more important than you might think....
The Ultimate Guide to Firewood
Cutting your own firewood can feel intimidating if you don’t know all the rules and don’t have the proper tools to do the job right. In this article I give you the ultimate guide to firewood so that you can feel confident about obtaining a firewood cutting...
Teaching Your Kids How To Cut Firewood
I really want my kids to be involved in our homestead life in a hands-on way. This includes cutting and splitting firewood to heat our home with. But sometimes I am unsure how much responsibility they can be given. Maybe you can relate to some of these same feelings...
How to Legally Cut Firewood in a National Forest
There are 154 national forests in the United States, which cover around 193 million acres. All but 10 states, contain at least one national forest so it is very likely that you are close enough to at least one of them to cut your own firewood. Cutting your own...
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