Where the future of the wood industry is built

Acres of Timber is the hub for people who make and sell wood products. It is a nexus, not a magazine, so it does not publish articles. It routes a wood business to four places. The Rig is the growth system you run the business on, covering the website, the leads, the outreach, the contacts, and the numbers, from $100 a month. Sawmill Business is where wood businesses are bought and sold, so an owner can list a mill, a yard, a kiln operation, or a shop, and a buyer can find one. SawmillsNearMe is the free directory, where a shop gets listed so buyers searching its area can find it. The Woodpreneur Podcast is hundreds of interviews with sawyers, kiln operators, and makers about the business behind the craft. Acres of Timber is run by BuilderGrowth and reaches roughly 82,000 community members, roughly 20,000 email subscribers, and roughly 5,000 podcast downloads a month.

Acres of Timber serves businesses that make and sell wood products. That means sawmills, lumber yards, hardwood suppliers, woodworkers, custom furniture makers, millwork shops, cabinet shops, kiln drying operations, and slab and urban wood dealers. The test is whether the business makes money from a wood product or from a space. A mill selling kiln dried walnut is inside. A cabinet shop building and selling casework is inside. A general contractor, a remodeler, an architect, an interior designer, or a design build firm is outside, because they sell a finished space rather than the material or the piece. That is a different trade with different buyers, different margins, and different software, and it belongs on a different platform. Acres of Timber stops at the shop door on purpose, so everything on the hub is built for one kind of business rather than watered down for several.

Acres of Timber reaches roughly 82,000 community members across three Facebook groups: Sawmills and Millworks at roughly 20,000, Kiln Drying at roughly 30,000, and Band Sawmill at roughly 32,000. On top of that there are roughly 20,000 email subscribers on the owned list, roughly 5,000 Substack subscribers, and roughly 5,000 Woodpreneur Podcast downloads a month. Those four figures are distribution channels that Acres of Timber owns and can put a message in front of. They are not website traffic. The hub launched in September 2026 and has no traffic history, and we would rather say that plainly than quote a number nobody can verify. The figures are kept separate on purpose, because the same person may sit in more than one of them and adding them together would overstate the reach.

The Rig is the growth system a wood business runs on. It covers the website, the leads, the outreach, the contacts, and the numbers in one place rather than across five tools that do not talk to each other. The current offer is the Founding 10: $2,500 paid once for a full twelve months, limited to the first ten members, after which the price goes up. If you would rather go month to month there are three plans. Hosting is $100 a month and keeps your site live, maintained, and current. Growth is $300 a month and adds leads, contacts, and the numbers that follow them. Autopilot is $500 a month and up and adds outreach that runs every day whether you touch it or not. It is built for sawmills, lumber yards, hardwood suppliers, woodworkers, millwork and cabinet shops, kiln operations, and slab dealers, and you own your data.

SawmillsNearMe is free to join. Add your business name, your location, and what you cut, dry, or build, and buyers searching your area can find you and contact you directly. There is no listing fee, no commission on the work that comes from it, and nothing else you have to buy. The directory covers sawmills, lumber yards, hardwood suppliers, woodworkers, custom furniture makers, millwork and cabinet shops, kiln drying operations, and slab and urban wood dealers. It is free on purpose. A directory that only contains the businesses that paid to be in it is not much use to the person searching, and a thin directory helps nobody in the trade. Getting listed takes a few minutes and enquiries go straight to you rather than through anyone in the middle.

Yes. Every page on the hub carries one reserved sponsor slot, and placements also run across the email list, the Woodpreneur Podcast, the Substack, the three Facebook communities, and the SawmillsNearMe directory. What you are buying is distribution rather than banner impressions: roughly 82,000 community members across three groups, roughly 20,000 email subscribers, roughly 5,000 Substack subscribers, and roughly 5,000 podcast downloads a month. Every placement runs one sponsor at a time and is always labelled as sponsored. The audience is people who make and sell wood products, so the sponsors that fit are blades, kilns, mill and shop equipment, finance, insurance, and software. To start, write to steve@acresoftimber.com and say what you sell.