Lump Charcoal

Rockwood comes exclusively from Missouri hardwood–mainly oak & hickory, but can contain some pecan, cherry, and/or maple. Other brands use foreign woods and flooring/molding scrap, which contain can softwoods and resins.

Rockwood is carefully handled and stacked to ensure the large chunks of charcoal remain intact. It’s also properly dried, kilned, and cooled to remove all tars that could produce undesirable smoke.

And Rockwood is environmentally friendly. From the charcoal production, to the bag, to the waste, we keep our product and our process green.

Rockwood is 100% from Missouri. Our charcoal comes from hardwood left over from timber milling operations in the Ozarks and Mark Twain National Forest. Our charcoal is dried, kilned, and packaged in southern Missouri and carefully transported to our two warehouses in St. Louis County, Missouri.

Our charcoal is all-natural. It is made from 100% Missouri hardwood trees growing in the wild. It contains zero chemicals, fertilizers, or pesticides. We could legally say it is “organic”; however, it would misrepresent the product and corrupt the word itself.

“Organic” gets thrown around a lot now, but there are strict USDA regulations when and where you can use it in terms of food and beverage labeling. Typically, it’s used to show the product was “organically farmed” under the regulations of 7 CFR Part 205–free of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, etc. It is also used, but not as regulated, to label textiles and personal hygiene products.

First off, our charcoal not “farmed”–it comes from trees growing naturally in the forest. Furthermore, our charcoal is not consumed, nor worn on or applied to a person’s body. For these reasons, we have chosen not to debase the word “organic” by using it to describe a fuel.

We fully support the organic movement 100% by keeping it natural. We definitely can say that certified organic products taste the best when prepared over all-natural lump.