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The East Fork Journal

Color Theory: Bittersweet & Nocturne

Color Theory: Bittersweet & Nocturne

Time traveling with Nicole Lissenden. East Fork’s Creative Director shares the inspirations behind this season’s bold color explorations and reflects on East Fork’s 15th Anniversary.

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Community-supported Healthcare

Community-supported Healthcare

Meet our first employee-recommended community partner, Big Ivy Health, and learn how they support the needs of the Barnardsville Community with free access to healthcare.

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A black and white photo of Alex Matisse kneeling in front of large ceramic pieces in a wood kiln

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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A lineup of ceramic palettes with square glaze swatches all over them.

Color Stories

A look back at the evolution of East Fork’s core colors and how they came to be.

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A person wearing a black sweatshirt is holding a ceramic terracotta mug with 2 hands.

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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In a sink are various ceramic dishes, mugs, and silverware with sudsy water

Caring For Your Pots

A care guide for your pots, yourself, each other.

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  • Scenic Route No. 6: This Is The Year

    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. 

  • Recipes: Whipped Tahini (A Condiment To Put On Everything)

    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...

  • Scenic Route No. 7: Asheville Edition

    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.

  • An Ode to the Soft-Boiled Egg

    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...

  • Solidarity In Clay

    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.

  • Season of the Salad

    Season of the Salad

    A post mashed-potato stupor salad to get you feeling clean and green.

  • Alex wearing a coat and laying on the snow

    Clay Buddies: Alex's 5 Things

    Alex, the man who started it all, shares his 5 favorite things.

  • Holiday Entertaining, Simplified

    Holiday Entertaining, Simplified

    Do yourself a favor this year, and learn how to put together a charcuterie board with real finesse.

  • Scenic Route No. 4

    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."

  • Still We Rise: An Auction Benefitting Planned Parenthood & The Southern Poverty Law Center

    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...

  • Barber's Baskets

    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.  

  • Chef Matt Dawes of The Bull + Beggar

    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...

  • Cocktail: Fall Spritz

    Cocktail: Fall Spritz

    An Aperol Spritz is an easy go to for when you want to drink light and look classy doing it....

  • A person sits at a weaving loom with their back to the camera.

    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…."

  • Photo by Mike Belleme 

    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...

  • A Tisket a Tasket

    A Tisket a Tasket

    An Interview with Madison County Basket Weaver, Louise Langsner In the mid 1970s, after months of living and working with...

  • Recipe: Tomato Marmalade

    Recipe: Tomato Marmalade

    As summer is taking its last breath, and all of the late season tomatoes are still barely hanging on the...

  • Recipe: Saffron Rice Pudding

    Recipe: Saffron Rice Pudding

    To me, rice pudding is the most comforting dessert - rice kernels swollen full of milk and sugar. I love...

  • South Comes North

    South Comes North

    All of our astrologically sensitive friends gave us due warning of April's encroaching, energetic thunderstorm, so we had our feet...

  • Where We Are

    Where We Are

    I have to admit: I'm experiencing the same mild anxiety I feel when I wait two weeks too long to...