About Josh
Josh Geidel Owner/Sawyer
Josh Geidel grew up north of Milwaukee in Cedarburg, WI. The son of a woodworker/stained glass artist and a textile artist, Josh had the good fortune of being exposed to a variety of media from an early age. The completion of the trifecta that has become his life's work came from the influence of spending day after day in the very active blacksmith shop of Cedarburg's famous Old Woolen Mill. What patience those fellas must have had to put up with such an inquisitive lil squirt nipping at their heals.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Madison, Josh returned to his adopted home of Las Vegas, Nevada. The family business of real estate drew him in and he spent the next 5 years endeavoring to promote awareness of Las Vegas' architecturally significant tract neighborhoods through his residential real estate practice.
As fortune would have it, the economic crisis of 2008 provided an opportunity to change careers. A return to Madison to pursue graduate school was in the cards and even if grad school didn't fit, the return to Midwestern roots did.
After a lovely detour to smell the roses of a fulfilling yoga practice and teacher training, fate once again would intervene and transform the dream of someday milling wood into the reality of running the sawmill for Baraboo Woodworks.
The rest as they say is history.
Well, not exacty instant history though. Baraboo Woodworks and his job running the mill there began its dissolution just as Josh welcomed his daughter to the world. A shift in focus once again to prioritize fatherhood during the most formative years also allowed him the time to build his metal fabrication shop and textile studio.
Working steel isn't for everyone, but it's in Josh's blood. So once the decision was made with his wife that the next career focus would be a return to sawmilling, well, by golly, the little detail of there not being a mill for sale anywhere in the country (practically, this was post pandemic record high lumber prices and Mills were in as high a demand as they ever had been) wasn't gonna stop Josh. You know what they say, "if you can't beat em, build em!" Just kidding. No one says that.
And, that, my friends is how The Mill was born!
A fittingly serendipitous path that followed the call of curiosity
and the pull of the universe.
And if you've read this far than it is a lock!
You are in the right place!
You love a story!
And you know who has a story to tell?
Your logs!
That's right they do!