When JZ Utility Barns (now Yoder’s Quality Buildings) was founded by Jonathan Zook in 2001, little did the family know what all would soon transpire. For the first few years, the Utility Shed Company based in Rural Retreat, Virginia, made slow growth as father and sons worked hard to get their new[Read More…]
Matt Poe
Matt Poe is the Editor of Shed Business Journal, previously of Shed Builder Magazine.
NY Army National Guard Train on Building Projects
Nearly 300 soldiers from the Binghamton, New York-based 204th Engineer Battalion used their summer annual training to prepare for overseas deployments and domestic operations while building lasting projects across three ranges and four construction sites in Fort Drum, New York, in July. “Not only are we training to deploy but[Read More…]
Cabin and Cottage Shop Tour in Vermont
Dominic Mangano started Jamaica Cottage Shop back in 1995 in Jamaica, Vermont. Hence, the name (just in case you were curious why a shop in Vermont used the name “Jamaica”). Today, the shop is located in South Londonderry, but the company still creates quality cabins, cottages, and sheds in prefab[Read More…]
Turning a Shed into A Backyard Pub
Mike Sheehan of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a huge family that loves to get together for lots of parties. The problem with having a big family is that they overrun the house. Sheehan’s wife mentioned that it would be nice to get the family out of the house and keep[Read More…]
Amish Shed Company Launched in Missouri
Samuel Fisher, who learned the shed-building trade in the “Shed Capital of the World,” has launched a new Amish sheds company in Dunnegan, Missouri—Dunnegan Springs Structures. For nearly ten years, Fisher worked in the storage shed industry in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. During that time, he was tasked with doing about every[Read More…]
10 Shed ‘Fails’ That Have to be Seen
We try to keep things on the positive side around here, but, sometimes things happen. That includes “fails” when it comes to shed building. Check out the 10 shed building/moving fails in the following video. YouTuber Bill Berg put together some epic, and hilarious, fails, didn’t he? One of the[Read More…]
Just How Fast Can a Pro Build a Shed?
Last week’s speedy shed build video attracted a lot of interest. One builder decided to share his fast shed building video. Kauffman Builders in Eureka, Montana, wanted to see how fast they could build a shed. Now, they didn’t do it in 10 minutes. The footage is sped up, but[Read More…]
Traditions & Belief
Amish Sheds Inc. in Thorold, Ontario, has been in business since 2007. And since the beginning, the company has had its sheds built by the Amish in the small town of South Dayton, New York. Why? Because the Amish there use Hemlock wood, which resists insects and lasts a long[Read More…]
Michigan Town Putting Up Sheds … for Business
The city of Muskegon, Michigan, is located along the shores of Lake Michigan, and it’s always looking for ways to make the best use of its shoreline. In 2016, the city had an idea to put small shops along the beach. After some research, it was determined that sheds would[Read More…]
New Website for The Backyard n Beyond
When Curvin Huber of The Backyard n Beyond began looking for a web design firm to launch a site for his storage shed company in Ellsinore, Missouri, he went back to his roots in Pennsylvania. There he began a conversation with E-Impact Marketing and settled on a basic website to get started selling portable[Read More…]
