When the temperatures outside begin to drop there's nothing we'd rather do than curl up by the fire, sip hot cocoa, and read a good book. But if your home doesn't have a traditional fireplace, this is ...

Explore the art of heating your home naturally with our comprehensive guide on wood stoves. In this video, we delve into the ...

A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it produced. Stoves with names like Gold Coin, ...

With winter well underway and inflationary pressures still high, you might be wondering: which is a cheaper way to heat your home — a wood burning stove or central heating? The U.S. Energy Information ...

Induction stoves are becoming the hottest new appliance in the world of cooking, and for good reason. Essentially, instead of waiting for a hot surface to transfer heat to your cookware, you heat the ...

Finding that it provides plenty of heat for both floors of 1,000 square-foot straw bale home during long winters in rural Ontario. Tim and Jan King of Long Prairie, Minn., use their Waterford Stanley ...

Call it an Old World solution to today’s energy crisis. Motivated by the high cost of home heating oil, many South Shore residents are using wood-burning stoves to heat their homes. Building ...

This commentary is by Emma Hanson, wood energy coordinator at the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. She has been heating her fossil-fuel-free home with advanced wood heat in the ...

No way was Ginger Rice going to put up with another year of $300-a-month heating bills. So when she heard natural gas prices would climb even higher this season, Rice did the only thing she thought ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

I couldn’t stand the heat and wanted out of the kitchen. It was August 1989, and Telegram-Tribune reporter Dorie Bentley and I were sweating over a food story about tomatoes because Ingrid Hilton ...

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