Sawmill Business Podcast

Erika Horigan: Horigan Urban Forest Products “It's this product that does everything that you sort of want it to. It's beautiful, sustainable, at this point, it's plentiful. We can keep on producing it; there's so many good things in it.” Erika Horigan Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast! Today your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Erika Horigan of Horigan Urban Forest Products. Erika is a rare Woodpreneur interview for Steve because she is also located in Chicago, not an area with an abundance of urban lumber involvement. “Horigan Urban Forest Products got started in 2003, so it's been a while. Prior to that we had a tree business. It was my husband, Bruce, who had seen these trees going into the landfill at first, and then into firewood or mulch and he thought that there's got to be a better way.  Taking them to a higher use was the beginning thought and we started to look into milling and kiln drying, it took quite a while. Then in 2003, we sold Horigan Tree Ind