Summer isn’t the time of year that most people think about firewood. Maybe that’s because their firewood isn’t elegant enough. “When I saw it, I said, ‘That’s beautiful.’ It caught my eye,” is how ...

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Q: What are some affordable and effective methods to store firewood outdoors? I'm looking for stacking tips, and ways to help air-dry the wood as well as keep it dry. A: I see unprotected firewood ...

Of the several things the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami loves including in his books—cats, spaghetti, Blue Note jazz albums—wood-burning stoves always seemed to me to be a bit of an outlier, the ...