Well seasoned pine will do fine. As stated by Ianab, use the pitch to start fires, it doesn't take much though.
Years ago our daughter was watching the rest of the kids on a real cold day, our old house was pretty drafty so she loaded the stove with rocket fuel (pitch). When I came home it must have been 100* in the living room, and the old cast iron stove was glowing red, you could actually see the stove expand as it sucked in air. The flu was glowing all the way up to where it went into the stone chimney. The kids were all just sitting there watching the stove in awe.
I had to get another stove the next morning, and I quit hording so much pitch.
Andy