COOK YOUR FOOD. HEAT YOUR WATER. WARM YOUR HOME.

Homewood Stoves is a family business, making high quality cast-iron wood stoves that are designed and built to last. We are New Zealand’s only cast-iron cooking stove manufacturers, 100% NZ owned and operated, using only local foundries. Our stoves run on wood, a renewable and environmentally friendly energy supply. They perform beautifully, burning cleanly and efficiently, and look gorgeous to boot. Cooking ranges are able to be installed in many of the areas where open fires have been banned, and with our glass firebox doors you can still enjoy the pleasure of watching the flames!

Due to the recession we have had a freeze on price increases, keeping our prices static since November 2007. However, the intervening four years have seen inflation (as measured by the consumer price index) increase by 13.4%. Over this time we have also had supplier increases well in excess of 10%, and the unfortunate reality is that we can no longer continue to absorb the extra costs … read more | 1 comment

Over the last year or so we have seen a steady rise in the number of export enquiries that come in – increasingly from the US/Canada or Australia.

This article contains some information on where we are currently at as far as export goes … read more | 2 comments

Apologies for the lack of news over the last few months!
Here’s an update that covers a bunch of different topics: growing to deal with increasing demand; workshop expansion; some overdue Companion development news; future price increases and some details on the world travellers … read more

Want to make cheese at home? You can’t go past Cutting the Curd – Cheese Making at Home by Katherine Mowbray.
Katherine is New Zealand’s best home cheese making teacher and in this book (published and printed in New Zealand) she shares all her cheese making principles and tips … read more

We love the NZ Lifestyle Farmer Magazine – so much so we have a years subscription to it as one of our prizes in our yearly new owner feedback survey! It has been published by NZ Rural press for over ten years and features articles by journalists who are or have been farmers and growers… read more

The Booms (Penny’s identical twin sister Rosie and her family) have installed their Homewood Heritage Stove in their new home (that they have built themselves!) and so we visited to see how it was all going.
It is still not fully installed but it is looking wonderful and homely … read more

Big thank you to everyone that dropped in to check us out last week at Mystery Creek!
Penny and Rosie had a very busy and rewarding time down there – thanks in no small part to the many, many interested people who visited our tent and got to see the Companion in action … read more | 2 comments

Ten years ago (June the 6th, 2001) the original Homewood stove was lit for the very first time. Years of planning, design and patterning work finally paid off as the Heritage came to life. Last night friends and family gathered at Homewood Farm to celebrate with us as we marked this gratifying ten year milestone … read more | 2 comments

One of our customers is selling their 5 acre property south of Levin, Horowhenua – complete with Homewood Heritage!

More details and loads more photos inside … read more

The exciting news is that we’ve finally assembled the first test Companion and today and yesterday have had it running – and are very pleased with how she goes! The not-so-great news is that during assembly we uncovered the need for a much higher number of pattern adjustments than we had anticipated … read more | 2 comments