Buy Firewood in Advance

Cut Down on Dangerous Wood Smoke Pollution, and Get Prepared

By TDG Community

When firewood suppliers who sell by the cord or truckload say they're selling dry wood, they mean the trees were cut down some time ago. They do not mean the wood was fitted: cut to length and split, more than about 5 minutes before it went on the truck.

So if you want firewood dry enough to ignite easily and burn cleanly it's important to plan in advance. It takes at least a couple of months for "dry" wood to finish drying, so the sooner it's delivered and stacked, the better; and if you have the storage room to buy now for NEXT winter, by all means go for it.

Leslie Land

Get more green tips and advice from Leslie Land, and check out her blog The Greengrower on TDG.

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