Claymates
The Key to Ending Homelessness
An introduction to our Q2 Community Partner, Homeward Bound
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Why Is It Called East Fork?
Alex Matisse, East Fork’s founder, on how the company got its name and why it represents a “little private victory” for him.
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Color Theory: Core Colors
Our Head of Design, Nicole Lissenden, shares the details of how we built our core color palette.
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How We Make The Mug
Want to know everything there is to know about how we make The Mug? It’s your lucky day. Get the behind-the-scenes on how we make our iconic ceramic mug.
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Update on How Our Pots Get Made
East Fork’s manufacturing floor stands on the precipice of a big change. We’re preparing to move to a new clay body and glaze recipe that’s been three years in the making.
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Living with Giants
"I grew up in a large, converted, New England Baptist church. The kind with a steeple and a bell and white clapboards. We didn’t have a typical fireplace, so on Christmas mornings, our stockings were hung from the clapper under the bell."
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Self Care, Witchy Style
East Fork is partnering with Sarah Chappell for a day of self-nurturing through in-store tarot readings, flower essence making, and herbaceous cocktail sippin’.
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Brass Pens From Kaweco
These brass pens from Kaweco that we recently started carrying at our Asheville store have reignited my deep affinity for special writing implements that's stayed dormant since a mildly obsessive gel pen collecting phase in middle school.
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Sweet Talk
There's no denying that choosing a gift for your Valentine can be tricky - from chartering skywriters to sending Edible...
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Scenic Route No. 6: This Is The Year
Rather than turning to the onslaught of transformation tips that floods the internet during the first weeks of the year, we’re welcoming 2018 with the patient understanding that, while setting goals and making big changes can be empowering reset tools, real, lasting change comes slowly.
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Recipes: Whipped Tahini (A Condiment To Put On Everything)
I first discovered this truly addictive whipped tahini at a dinner hosted by Ashley Christensen as a part of her...
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Scenic Route No. 7: Asheville Edition
A handful of things happening around town this weekend that we think sound better than hanging out at home. Which can be pretty good.
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An Ode to the Soft-Boiled Egg
Before being introduced to the seductive ways of a perfectly gooey soft-boiled egg, I've had some pretty negative associations with boiled...
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Solidarity In Clay
We’re fully here for any opportunity to celebrate the countless ways in which Black and African Americans have built, shaped, and enhanced American life.
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Season of the Salad
A post mashed-potato stupor salad to get you feeling clean and green.
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Clay Buddies: Alex's 5 Things
Alex, the man who started it all, shares his 5 favorite things.
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Holiday Entertaining, Simplified
Do yourself a favor this year, and learn how to put together a charcuterie board with real finesse.
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Scenic Route No. 4
"Today you'll begin (something), you'll feel lazy or motivated or inspired or sleepy or excited to keep going or resolved to make changes. Or all of this or none of this or, probably, somewhere in between."
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Still We Rise: An Auction Benefitting Planned Parenthood & The Southern Poverty Law Center
"Stop the Hate" by Alessandra Olanow Still We Rise is an online benefit auction started by Lindsay Meyer-Harley, founder...
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Barber's Baskets
Barber's Baskets are great containers to pile high with the week's market haul or to stuff with kindling and keep by the fireplace, but they're a delight (and just so cool) to use for plain ol' carrying stuff around.
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Chef Matt Dawes of The Bull + Beggar
Recipe: Pork Shoulder with Garlic, Bay + Fennel Lately I have a hard time keeping track of my keys and...
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Cocktail: Fall Spritz
An Aperol Spritz is an easy go to for when you want to drink light and look classy doing it....
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A Little Weather: Cheerleader for Grief
"I believe in embracing the journey into the dark heart of the earth, which is something that really freaks my family out…."
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Seconds To Some
The reclaim bucket: a dusty end for not-quite-right pots that don't make it past stage 1 of quality control. Clay...
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A Tisket a Tasket
An Interview with Madison County Basket Weaver, Louise Langsner In the mid 1970s, after months of living and working with...
