Through the years we’ve accumulated quite a group of repeat firewood customers and they always come back because we have the best variety and selection in town. A lot of customers come in not knowing what they’re looking for, just something to burn, something heat their home or take camping. We have a good variety of woods available, all of them good for different purposes. This year we’ve really tried to work out a comprehensive guide for buying firewood we hope will help you choose the right wood for you.

In a given season, we carry 6 General-Use firewoods or mixes and anywhere from 1 to 3 Specialty woods.

General Purpose Firewoods:

City Mix

• Made up of woods you might find around town, City Mix is the best value for the money with a mix of both hard and soft local woods. Most often you’ll find woods such as Elm, Maple, Ash, Locust and some Cottonwood in City Mix.

  Usually this firewood sells out midway through the winter season, as cured supplies are limited by the volumes local tree trimmers bring in during the spring and early summer. City Mix is great for a variety of burning applications.

Forest Mix

• The other mix we sell is generally a combination of softer woods such as Ponderosa and other pines, Spruce and Firs and is known as Forest Mix. Customers typically purchase Forest Mix for casual burning or fire starting purposes, but others like it for its snap, crackle and pop. The softer woods will typically burn faster, but for all intents and purposes, burn as hot or hotter than their harder sibling woods.

  Many customers who burn to heat their homes in the winter will use Forest Mix wood as kindling or firestarter, followed by the harder, more long-burning woods such as Oak, Piñon or Hickory. Forest Mix provides the best value for the casual burner.

Piñon Pine

• Normally grouped in with the other softer pines, Piñon is the hardest pine and one of the most fragrant woods. This wood comes mainly from southern Colorado and it typically cures on our property for upward of 6 months before we’ll sell it. Piñon is considered to be the hottest and longest-burning of the pines. And like the Forest Mix and Cedar firewoods, you’ll get the ambiance of snap, crackle and pop.

  For the more serious burner, Piñon is an excellent choice. It it fairly easy to light, burns long and provides a good coal bed for continued heat.

Cedar

• If you know anything about Cedar wood, you should already be aware of the fragrant smell accompanying this wood. Now imagine warming your home and smelling this aroma at the same time. What a treat! Like the Piñon, this wood hails from Southern Colorado and offers a longer, hotter burning experience. Many of our customers have been known to mix the Piñon and Cedar woods together for a fragrant firewood mix.

  Cedar is also famous for its snap, crackle and pop nature. For an all-around good, hard, firewood, Cedar makes an excellent choice.

Oak

• If you’re looking to heat your home for the winter, Oak firewood is your answer. It burns hot, it burns clean, and the long burning cycle means your supplies will last longer too. Pairing this with the Forest Mix will get you a solid fire starter and over-night burner.

  The Oak firewood we carry comes from Eastern-Kansas/Western-Missouri country, providing our customers with good, solid wood but short enough sticks to fit into a wood-burning stove or fireplace.

Hickory

• For the serious burner, Hickory firewood is certainly worth its weight. With the highest BTU rating of any of the general purpose woods we carry, Hickory is sure to please in terms of heat output and burning time. You’ll be sure to want a softer wood for fire starting though, because dead-starting Hickory can be quite the feat.

  If you’re thinking about doing some outdoor cooking/smoking this winter, Hickory can also add a great smoky taste to your cooking. If you’re looking for the top-of-the-line in firewoods, Hickory is the way to go.

Whether you’ve got good softer kindling for firestarting or not, grabbing a bag of Georgia Fatwood can make your life a lot easier. A little of the fatwood really goes a long way. The wood is chock full of highly-flammable dried pitch, making the wood an excellent firestarter. You can pick up fatwood for $2.99 a pound in our garden shop.

If your interests lie more in cooking rather than heating, we carry several specialty woods that will be sure to spice up your meat or other edibles. Right now, we carry both Apple and Mesquite woods for this purpose. You can pick up an 1/8 cord of either for $95.

If you have more questions about the specialty woods or any of the other firewoods we stock, give us a call or stop in, we’re always happy to answer questions.

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