Garden Diary - October 2026

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Woodfest

Sunday, 8 November 2026

Firewood, it is said, heats you multiple times. First, it is cut. Then it needs split. Stacked. And finally, when it is burned in a stove. And in-between the cutting / splitting / stacking the wood must be moved. This year I am also warmed by the kindness of friends.

Sean and his friends celebrated woodfest yesterday. Once a year they gather together and spend the day splitting wood. This time there were eleven people, and even though a couple of men were there more to socialize, there was only one chain saw for bucking to stove length, many hands make light work. Whoever needs it, gets it. No one needed the firewood this time, so I will be the fortunate recipient.

Sean and Rachel came midday, and his truck was jam packed full of firewood.

He backed the truck over to the upper parking area and started emptying it of the firewood.

It went quickly. Rachel was inside the truck, hunkered down, quickly shifting wood to the tailgate.

A cord of firewood is 128 cubic feet, stacked 8 feet long by 4 feet high by 4 feet wide. A face cord is
half of that, 8 feet by 4 feet by 2 feet. This somewhat irregular stack is 12 feet long, 3 foot 9 inches high,

image courtesy Sean Jerzweski, all rights reserved
about about 18 inches wide. The goal here was how quickly it could be unloaded. A fair amount of wood.

There were a number of short pieces which Rachel collected in empty buckets. It all burns.

Sean even brought a very large tarp to drape over the woodpile, keeping it dry until
it gets stacked into the wood rack in the basement, the overflow under cover outside.

If you have any comments or questions, you can e-mail me: jgglatt@gmail.com

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