In the past two weeks I’ve written about wood stoves and pellet heating. This week I’ll focus on another way to burn wood cleanly and efficiently: using a masonry heater. A masonry heater, also called ...

The author’s woodstove is plumbed to a recycled water heater that sits above the stove, allowing the thermosiphon effect to circulate water between them. For years, we’ve been experimenting with ...

One of the big decisions we had to make when we were planning our new off grid home was what kind of heat we were going to have? We pretty much eliminated anything that would require electricity such ...