Country Living in a Cariboo Valley

Homesteading in BC

  • How to Get Started
  • Preserving Food
  • Recipes
  • Homemade Wine Recipes
  • Spend Less
  • eBooks
    • Delicious Dandelions: A Recipe Collection
    • Dirt to Dollars: Selling at the Farmers Market
    • 8 Pounds in 8 Weeks: Raising Chicks for the Dinner Table
    • Making Wild Wine
    • Build a Hanging Chicken Feeder
    • 15 Things to Know About Living in the Country
  • About Us
  • Work With Me

How to Find Free Firewood for Your Wood Stove

finding free firewood, heating with wood, woodstove

Finding free firewood can save thousands of dollars every year!   Filling the woodroom - it's one of our Top 5 "W" chores every spring. And we have been hard at it for the last several weeks. And we love finding free firewood!      Once winter temperatures hit -20C, we turn on two basement baseboard heaters, just so water lines don't freeze. The house stays … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood

How to Clean Out a Woodstove

finding free firewood

Fall and winter afternoons can be beautiful in the Cariboo. The mornings are often cold though. And it's time this morning to get that weekly chore done - clean out the wood stove.     Why You Need to Clean out the Wood Stove Our wood stove is going here probably 5 months out of the year. Maybe not every day but at least once a day. Overnight temperatures here get … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood

Wood Stove Fan – Ecofan 812AMXBX AirMax Product Review

wood stove fan, fan, heat,

We heat almost totally with wood here - although we have electric back up, we don't turn on any electric heat unless winter temperatures go down to -20 Celsius. We use our woodstove a lot - but we still needed a little something to push that woodstove heat into our living room. And that's why I bought a wood stove fan. It's an Ecofan 812AMXBX AirMax and I LOVE it so much I want to write … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood, Product Reviews

How Much Wood Can Annie Chuck?

How Much Wood Can Annie Chuck, if Annie Could Chuck Wood?   Well, I can and I did.     When we moved here in 2006, there was a small wood room already here on the far side of the driveway, used by the previous owners. We enlarged it to about double the size. We have found that in a very cold winter here, we use just over half of the total wood stored … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with WoodTagged: woodstove

Bacon & Eggs on the Woodstove

Not long ago, I wrote about some of the virtues of a woodstove. Not only is a woodstove a great way to heat your home, it can also be used for cooking. Since our woodstove has a flat top, we use it for cooking fairly often, especially when it is Really Cold outside. There's something very satisfying about cooking on a woodstove - I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's the warmth from the … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with WoodTagged: woodstove

Cooking on the Wood Stove

soup, woodstove, flat top

Having a wood stove for heat is an wonderful thing - being able to cook on it is even better. We love cooking on the wood stove. But, our wood stove is NOT a cook stove, it is just a wood stove for heating our home. Doesn't matter! We are able to cook on it because our stove has a flat top. We have electric heat as well, although we don't even turn on the baseboard heaters unless it is -20C … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood, Save MoneyTagged: Carrot

Filling the Wood Shed

Things have been so busy around the homestead that I haven't been able to keep up with posting new articles about what we have been up to. Now, as I sit in Vancouver, I finally have time to get caught up, at least a bit. We use our woodstove almost exclusively for heating our house and it is not a small house. It's almost 3000 square feet and we have the woodstove situated in the centre of the … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood

Cleaning up the Wood Shed

I've got the garden all in, finally. It dragged on this year, mostly due to all the rain we have had. I try to stay out of the garden when it's raining, because I just end up carrying mud on my boots and walking around on wet soil isn't good for it. Besides, there are roughly a million other things to get done here. We have no problem at all keeping busy on the homestead, it seems that the jobs … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Heating with Wood

Connect With Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Search this site

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in posts
Search in pages

Our Most Popular Posts

Make your own natural herbal livestock dewormer. Easy and it works. #chickens #livestock #herbal

How To Make a Natural Herbal Dewormer

How I Shop for Groceries – I Don’t Go to Town!

Privacy Policy

Read about our Privacy Policy

Disclosure

Please note that some of this site’s links are affiliate links, and CountryLivinginaCaribooValley.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. At NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU, I will earn a small commission, if you purchase them. I recommend them as they are good products.

Theme Design By Studio Mommy · Copyright © 2021