A table saw, his life savings, a little frustration, and a dream. That’s what it took for Donald Peschke to publish the first issue of Woodsmith magazine in 1979. Within ten years his entrepreneurial efforts paid off, as the publishing company he founded landed twice on Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing privately owned companies in America. Today, August Home Publishing Company publishes five national, award winning magazines: Woodsmith, ShopNotes, Garden Gate, Cuisine at home, and My Home My Style. In addition, it has expanded in many ways to meet its mission of “surrounding our customers with service.” August Home provides home centers and woodworking stores around the country with Woodsmith Tools, plans, and hardware kits through its wholesale division, operates The Woodsmith Store in Clive, Iowa (a dream store for woodworkers), has a mail-order business that supplies woodworking and gardening products, and has a new media group devoted to producing an active commerce and information site on the Web (www.AugustHome.com). Of course, it didn’t all start out this way.