Building a business: How the community rallied to help boy take his creations from workshop to retail Ryder McKee, a student at Poole’s Mill Elementary, started his own woodworking business, Red Ryder Woodworks. His creations can be found in some local stores.
This article appears in the March issue of 400 Life Magazine
Kristy and Brent McKee showed little surprise when their 8-year-old son, Ryder, came to them one afternoon in January and said he wanted to start his own business.
The third-grader is constantly looking for something new to work on, enrolling in gifted classes at Poole’s Mill Elementary where he attends school, playing in sports alongside his older brother and learning all he can about the projects his parents work on as part of their local carpentry business, Barn Doors and More of Forsyth County.