Last year, the corn fed stove replaced pellet stoves as the hot new home heating appliance on the block. This year, with higher fossil fuel costs driving home heating concerns and global warming spreading environmental woes, the biomass burning appliance market is heating up with multi-fuel stoves that let you toss in everything from cherry pits to wheat. “What makes these stoves so appealing across the country is the fact that they are true biomass appliances. Depending on your geographical region, certain renewable fuels are in more abundant supply than others. Corn is readily available in the Midwest. Wood pellets are popular in the northeast.

The Magnum brand includes models that burn corn, wood pellets, wheat, barley, oats, durum, cherry pits and olive pits, as well as more traditional wood, pellet and corn burners, Haefner says. Sales of all their biomass fueled appliances has soared 500 percent over the past five years, driven by conscientious consumers who want to heat their homes with less pollution and reliance upon fossil fuels. With customers on a six-month waiting list, the firm is expanding facilities to crank out 75,000 biomass burners a year by 2007, doubling it’s current output.

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