Someone here in Merrimack NH a couple of years back harvested some pine trees, rented an enormous bandsaw, and cut his own 2”x4” 2x4’s for a restoration project. Looked like a hell of a lot of fun.
I hope to goodness he seasoned it before he installed it -- my father as a young man once built a cabin out of green pine, and of course it shrank as it dried and you could throw a baseball (well, a ping pong ball) through the walls almost anywhere.
New Hampshire and Vermont were the home base of Fine Homebuilding when it first began. I think they're in Connecticut now.