Megan Offner, New York Heartwoods
About this episode
Megan Offner discusses her journey in woodworking and project coordination, highlighting the complexities of sourcing materials and the evolution of her business.
What if the tree in your backyard could become the floor beneath your feet, the table where your family gathers, or the beams holding up your home? Megan Offner of New York Heartwoods has spent 25 years making that a reality, and her story is one every woodworking and craftsmanship lover needs to hear. In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, Jennifer Alger reconnects with Megan to hear how her business has evolved from running a sawmill and producing custom furniture to a bold new chapter as a project coordinator and wood sourcing consultant. Megan now bridges the gap between landowners, architects, designers, and small local mills, stewarding trees from the moment they are still standing all the way through to finished, traceable, place-based materials in the built environment. Megan opens up about the logistical complexity of working on large-scale hospitality and residential projects, including sourcing 27 walnut slab tables for a Hudson Valley hotel and turning four massive poplar trees into 8,000 linear feet of baseboard for an affordable housing project in Kingston, New York. She also shares the rewarding challenge of expanding her work to the West Coast, learning new…
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