Archive for January, 2010

Too many cooks in your kitchen? Or maybe not enough? Learn to bake with the best with our friends at the Stone Turtle Baking and Cooking School. 

Michael and Sandy Jubinksy, Founders of Stone Turtle Baking & Cooking School

Wood-Fired Baking & Cooking Classes

Stone Turtle’s classes range from baking pizza, chocolate, pies and ...

Albie is completing a brick cookstove and see-through masonry heater on North Haven Island, twelve miles off of Rockland, Maine, just before he leaves for New Zealand to build a heater there. The job site is on the Turner Farm which overlooks the “thoroughfare” between North Haven and Vinalhaven Islands.

The “thoroughfare” is only a few hundred yards wide. Famous archeological digs at the Turner Farm site indicate, that like the ancient village of Norridgewock, the site seems to ...

We’re in the business of designing and building the social centers of a home, places for gathering, visiting, relaxing, inexhaustible eating and enjoying the company of family and friends. The vibrancy, mystique, and warm embrace of a fire from our masonry heaters or wood fired ovens, ignite the energy of all who surround it.

These social gatherings make ...

Ah, the New Year! It feels good. The sun has been out, we’re all rested up and recovered from the holidays, exciting projects are underway, and we’re moving full speed ahead.

However, before we get lost in 2010 and another year flies by, all of us at Maine Wood Heat took time reflect on the great experiences and fond memories we’ve had over this past year. To celebrate, we decided to take a look back on a few moments that topped ...

One day after posting the Woodchuck Firekeeper blog, I knew I had to find an answer to the birch tinder fungus question and mystery, so on a Blue Moon, the day before New Year’s Eve, I called my friend Ray Reitze who has taught wilderness ways and skills at the Earthways School of Wilderness Living for decades. Ray lives with his wife Nancy in a handmade, off the grid, wood heated log cabin “hogan” in Canaan, ...