Growing up, I was fortunate enough to live 15 minutes away from my Grandparents. Their property was name “Maple Hill”, and included a barn where my Grandfather kept all of his tools and equipment. He kept a bunch of scrap wood under one of his workbenches and I would spend hours upon hours in the barn building anything you could imagine.

Grandpa Manning taught me so many lessons. One of the most impactful was, “Please don’t leave my tools in the back yard any more, Ben. I ran over the hammer you left out with the lawnmower the other day.”

I now find myself extremely fortunate to be running this business and as an ode to the man who taught me how to read a tape measure (and to measure twice and cut once,) how to hold a hammer properly, let me experiment, lose his tools in the yard and most importantly support my passion for building, I have affectionately named this business “Maple Hill Woodworks.”