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Imagine a local food pantry or food bank. Replace the focus of food with firewood, and you have a center known as a wood bank. Like food pantries, wood banks aim to help community members with life essentials by supplying firewood at little to no cost to low income people and families who rely on firewood as a heating source.
Like our other heating programs, the Woodchucks exists to ensure that no one on the Peninsula goes cold in the winter - and there is no denying that a Maine winter can be brutally cold! To help maintain our goal of keeping homes warm all winter long, the Woodchucks help to serve those whose primary source of heat are wood stoves or fireplaces.
With their "den" based out of the Boothbay Public Works, the Woodchucks range in all ages--even up to 98! Wood comes from a range of donors--developers with lots that need clearing to downed trees from storms. If they have good access, the Woodchucks will be there! From clearing, to cutting lengths, to splitting to curing, they do it all in the name of helping to keep our neighbors warm.
