3 Can-do Farm Shops

By: Dave Mowitz

Take a look at these three Midwest farm shops after undergoing innovative structural changes that improve working conditions for their owners.

Raise-the-roof Remodel

Nathan Todd is one of those people who makes a first-rate make-do engineer. The Madrid, Iowa, farmer wanted a shop and found the structure he needed in a post-and-beam storage shed his father erected in 1963. That 40×72-foot structure was in solid condition and its posts displayed no rot. The challenge to converting the shed to a shop was its 12-foot-high sidewalls.