New England farmers and lumbermen have carefully put aside northern hardwood logs (oak, beech, maple, ash, etc.) intended for fireplace use for centuries. This wood was cut, split and stacked in a woodshed to protect it from the weather and elements to air dry for 12-18 months. Once dried, the wood was perfectly “seasoned” for burning in fireplaces, wood stoves, and home kitchen cooking stoves.

This method of “seasoning” wood is now accomplished by kiln drying.  Wood is cut, split, and placed in kilns where it is subjected to high-temperatures in high-air-velocity kilns until the moisture content is reduced to the values of true New England seasoned firewood. Kiln drying or “heat treating” method reduces drying time to days that naturally takes months to achieve. Ossipee Mountain Firewood™ remains in kilns until the moisture content reaches that of good seasoned firewood.  There is no difference in burning heat treated, kiln dried wood than this traditionally seasoned firewood.

Ossipee Mountain Firewood™ is produced from trees grown on our Certified Tree Farm in New Hampshire and logs purchased from other local tree farms and logging companies who carefully harvest trees to maintain healthy, high-quality forests. Regeneration after harvest is our highest priority. We accomplish this using harvest techniques that promote natural regeneration and planting when necessary. Our forest is managed for multiple resources of wildlife, water, recreation, and wood.