Katrina Amaral: Timberdoodle Farm

Katrina Amaral: Timberdoodle Sawmill

“They'll put us in touch with the landowner if they’re like ‘Well, I've never thought of this. We could use it’”

• Katrina Amaral

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Katrina from Timberdoodle Sawmill. Katrina and Miles began custom sawmilling with a homemade chainsaw mill way back in 2010. Since then, the business has grown enough for both of them to focus their time and energy heavily on the business, and what a journey it has been!

“We have a nonsensical origin story: Miles built a sawmill, it snowballed aggressively, and that’s what we’re doing now. So we are currently a vertically integrated sawmill business in rural New Hampshire. We have the capacity to cut down trees and handle the chain of custody all the way through milling and post-processing, which means that we do like a very geographically circular product. 

When we were still sawmilling out of the duplex apartment that we were renting near the college town that we went to. I came home from my day job, I do conservation work, and miles had been milling. I was coming home early to help him, and I was like, ‘Oh, I can tell by the smell of the sawdust that you’ve been milling a lot of red oak today.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, we were doing boards.’ I was like, ‘Okay, if I am deep in this enough to identify wood species by the smell of its sawdust, it feels like we’ve been doing a lot of it.’”

• Katrina Amaral

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