Aprovecho Research Center, 2025

ARC started in 1976, almost 50 years ago. 

In 1982, the original cook stove consultants returned from global travels to Oregon, bought 40 acres of forested land at the end of a road, planted a garden and started talking to Dr. Larry Winiarski, (Oregon State University) learning how to improve combustion and heat transfer efficiency. 

Dr. Nordica MacCarty, an associate professor at OSU, is the Executive Director of ARC and continues investigations of how wood fires can better help humanity. She has worked at ARC off and on for 25 years. Rigorous science-based experimentation, field learning, publication of peer reviewed journal articles and market-based manufacturing and distribution intertwine as ARC matures.

Learning from experience, eating a thousand kinds of food, succeeding now and then, is always great!