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energy crops

Grow your own fuel

firewood, home heating, oil crops, biodiesel, and other fuel crops we can grow at home and on the homestead

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energy crops

Ash - the best wood to grow for firewood?

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does anyone burn sunflower stalks for fuel?

33 replies 1 1 5

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Coppice Species for Firewood

50 replies 2 15

energy crops

stacking firewood - from the basics all the way to woodpile art

33 replies 7 27 12

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Coppice Trees for Firewood

2 14 66

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Planting trees to use as firewood.

30 replies 1

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How much land for firewood?

36 replies 1 3

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Drying firewood

34 replies 10 13

Energy and carbon...how to get real numbers?

5 replies 1 4

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Fartychokes for calories

35 replies 3 14

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Mechanized Domestic Heat

26 replies 2 7

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Burning softwoods?

33 replies

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What is the best way to grow fuel for an RMH

55 replies 2 3

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Perfect tree(s) for a woodlot

28 replies 1 9

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Perennial oil seed crops

33 replies 2 1

energy crops

Firewood Drying

11 replies 1 2

energy crops

Planting firewood: BTUs/acre

34 replies 2

What is an energy crop?

16 replies 1

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Buying a woodlot without owning big equipment

22 replies 1 5 7

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annuals for oil seeds

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energy crops

Firewood Drying

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projects

The Tree field Skye

6 days ago 71 replies [ 1, 2, 3 < ... <6, 7, 8 ] 6 123 84

Energy and carbon...how to get real numbers?

3 weeks ago 5 replies 1 4

energy crops

Perennial oil seed crops

1 month ago 33 replies 2 1

homestead

Holzhausen wood stacking

3 months ago 27 replies 8 12

energy crops

Coppice Species for Firewood

3 months ago 50 replies [ 1, 2 ] 2 15

gear

Neat tool for bundling firewood

3 months ago 6 replies 12 6

wood burning stoves

How many times do you move your firewood?

3 months ago 14 replies 3 4

energy crops

peeling logs before bucking and splitting

3 months ago 6 replies 4

energy crops

Which are your preferred tree species to grow your own fuel forest?

3 months ago

woodland

Black Locust Coppicing project and blog post

5 months ago 30 replies 18

rocket mass heaters

Eucalyptus wood in Rocket Mass Heater

5 months ago 8 replies 5 13

does anyone burn sunflower stalks for fuel?

6 months ago 33 replies 1 1 5

wood burning stoves

Permies Poll: How many cords of wood do you burn a year?

7 months ago 11 7

cooking

Re-Asking: Curious about Summer cooking and rocket-cookstoves?

7 months ago 3 replies 2

energy crops

Firewood Drying

7 months ago 11 replies 1 2

energy crops

Drying firewood

9 months ago 34 replies 10 13

wood burning stoves

Wood burning - a very expensive "free" option

9 months ago 77 replies [ 1, 2 ] 1 6 53

wood burning stoves

Tips and tricks for splitting firewood

9 months ago 39 replies 2 7 22

low tech

The Best Log Splitter EVER

1 year ago 15 replies 3 1 3

farm income

selling firewood

1 year ago 5 replies

energy crops

Firewood Calculator

1 year ago 9 replies 5

energy crops

Coppice Trees for Firewood

1 year ago [ 1, 2, 3 ] 2 14 66

energy crops

How much land for firewood?

1 year ago 36 replies 1 3

woodland

The Firewood Poem, accurate?

1 year ago 9 replies 3

energy crops

Bamboo - as a fuel ?

1 year ago 11 replies 1

homestead

Getting Ready for Firewood Season

1 year ago 26 replies 3 4

rocket stoves

Burning Bamboo in a Rocket Heater?

2 years ago 36 replies 2

energy crops

Fartychokes for calories

2 years ago 35 replies 3 14

rocket mass heaters

RMH Fuel- Soft vs Hard Wood

2 years ago 1 reply 1

energy crops

Help deciding what trees and how many to plant for coppiced firewood?

2 years ago 2 replies

rocket mass heaters

can you grow your own fuel - part of the Heat Infographic project

2 years ago 1

rocket mass heaters

carbon footprint and heat

2 years ago [ 1, 2 ] 14 12

What is an energy crop?

3 years ago 16 replies 1

energy crops

My firewood cutting, splitting and drying plan

3 years ago 18 replies 1 15 2

rocket mass heaters

Firewood for a Rocket Mass Heater - Beaverton MI

3 years ago 5 replies 1 2

trees

Splitting Elm

3 years ago 36 replies 1 2 3

woodland

First time coppicer - black locust and wild plum

3 years ago 7 replies 1

energy crops

Branches as fuel, how to dry and store them

3 years ago 3 replies 1

energy crops

Drying a standing tree before cutting for firewood

3 years ago 6 replies 6

energy crops

stacking firewood - from the basics all the way to woodpile art

3 years ago 33 replies 7 27 12

gear

Von Bachmayr Seed Pelleting Drum, could it be used to make feed and fuel pellets?

3 years ago 2 replies 1 1

energy crops

Here are a few things I have learned over the years about firewood

3 years ago 9 replies 1

energy crops

Firewood question - salvageable?

3 years ago 3 replies 1

upcycling

How Logs of Fruit Pulp Replace Firewood and Charcoal

3 years ago 2 replies 1 1

what are good methods of oil extraction from plant materials?

8 years ago 8 replies 2 3
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