A study assessing exposure in kitchens using firewood with traditional stoves reported average PM2.5 concentrations exceeding 1200 μg/m3 [ 24].
There's an outside kitchen and free firewood.
They were housed in a single 6 by room in a wooden barrack which served as their bedroom, kitchen, living room and firewood storage area.
The way of life at the camp – communal kitchens, work crews chopping firewood and building shelters, medics and healers providing care, councils coming together to make decisions, and everyone keeping an eye out for each other – has been a revelation for Shortbear.
The school benches piled up outside were being sawed into firewood by the kitchen crew.
But other more basic needs always came first: the rotted roof, a new floor in the kitchen, the constant search for firewood, making trails, clearing and digging the garden site, putting in potatoes, squash, peas, and beans.
With one child on firewood duty, one on kitchen duty and one as "mom's runner," we made it through the week.
At night, guests (currently limited to eight) gather in the bothy, a small cabin serving as a kitchen and dining room, heated with firewood.
These practices are no longer performed, but in some places a modified form of badnjak is used: a cross is carved into the bark of pieces of firewood which are burned in kitchen stoves on Christmas Eve.
Inside, we found firewood and brush piled in the kitchen and front room.
