Home & Heating covers wood pellets, heating fuel, and seasonal home supplies for country living, plus the practical extras a rural household needs. When the temperature drops on the Western Slope, it drops fast; stock up in Delta before the cold sets in.
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Home & Heating Feeding Guide
When should I stock up for winter?
Early. Heating fuel and wood pellets are cheapest and easiest to get before the first hard freeze, and delivery slots fill up once everyone else remembers winter is coming. A good rule: be stocked before you need to be. Running out in January means paying top dollar on someone else's schedule.
How should I store pellets and heating fuel?
Dry and reachable. Wood pellets turn to mush if they get wet, so keep them under cover and off the ground. A pallet in a dry shed beats a tarp in the yard. Store fuel where the delivery truck can reach it in bad weather and where you can get to it yourself on the coldest morning of the year.
What else should a rural household have on hand?
The seasonal extras that keep country living comfortable: backup heat for power outages, supplies for frozen-pipe season, and whatever your household burns through fastest when the roads are bad. We'll help you think through the list. We've lived these winters too.
Winter stock-up list:
- Wood pellets or heating fuel, bought early, stored dry
- Backup heat for power outages
- Cold-weather household essentials before the first freeze
- Delivery scheduled before the rush, not during it