Wood fired comfort

The kitchen in Barry and Colleen Boston’s Ararimu home is warm and comforting. A long, scrubbed wooden table stretches the length of the room and has a view over an English style garden, lovely even in the spring mist. In the corner a Stanley wood fired cooker burns, its heat filling the kitchen with ease. “We put it in about 14 years ago,” Colleen says as she fills the teapot with water boiled on the...