Mike Humble

I have been following sean's method of making charcoal in our woodstove for a couple of years now with great results (except the time I left the damper open and went to the garden and almost burned the house down, lesson learned)

we are in the process of building our forever home and we will be considerably updating our woodstove. We are almost settled on a Margin Flame View Heater (https://stovesandmore.com/product/flame-view-heater/) because it has the option to heat domestic hot water, has outside air and a front loading fire box with viewing window.

I'm hoping that the high temperatures of making charcoal won't affect the water coil? the system will be designed to "dump" the hot water into our radiant floor if the holding tank gets too hot, so I'm hoping that it won't change my ability make charcoal. The stove also has a gas reburn system that my current woodstove does not have, will this be a problem?

TIA for any advice before we pull the trigger

hey S Usvy! I'm just outside of St Andrews, wanna do some swaps this year? I will have strawberries for sure (Holyoke) and hopefully some gooseberries, haskap and blueberries.

just started my patch last year, so I'm looking for any and everything!

thanks tracy! that sounds like a good plan for riding it out. and I love cortes! I spent some time there a couple years back visiting an ex that lives on quadra, just lovely!

hiya! (first time poster, long time lurker)

I started my first hugel beds this year, they have turned into a mecca for rodents.....I set some traps and I did notice some good snake activity later in the summer, but I'm kinda worried about my fruit trees this winter (zone 4b eastern canada) I'm gonna hardware cloth around all my trees, but that is a different topic.

has anyone else noticed this in their hugel beds? I feel like if I tamped the soil down around the wood more there would have been less space for critters, but that's all hindsight.