Cordwood is a building technique that is richly embodied in sweat equity and labor intensiveness. The actual physical process of building is not seriously strenuous (the log ends are only 16″ long), ...

Learn about the advantages of building a home using cordwood construction. Unabashedly, I admit to two great love affairs in my life: with Jaki, my wife of 30 years, and (this one is shared with Jaki) ...

When Alan Stankevitz bought land near La Crescent, Minn., he knew he wanted to build an eco-friendly home there. But he wasn't sure what kind. An earth-sheltered house? "You need a crew to pour the ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. -- A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It's part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. — A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It’s part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

Standing in the airy, pine-ceilinged main room in her dodecahedral cordwood house in South Paris, surrounded by mortared walls dotted with the cut ends of logs, Sophia Maamouri says she wanted her ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — Richard Flateau built a cordwood home 35 years ago as an eco-friendly way to live mortgage free. He and his wife, Becky, read a magazine article about a man from New Brunswick, ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. — A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It’s part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...