In the beginning everything was made on a potter's wheel in a few small workshops on an old tobacco farm outside of Asheville, North Carolina.  As we grew we began to explore different production methods, and by 2018 we had outgrown the original site and moved into a proper factory in Asheville and had fully embraced a variety of industrial manufacturing methods.  When we settled in to our new home or first apprentice, Cade Holloman, pulled out an old wheel, plugged it in and started making pots under the name of Small Batch Studio, which we renamed East Fork Workshop a few years later.

Today the pots are made by another early East Fork contributor, Mike Ball, working in much the same way John and I did in our own apprenticeships, learning the forms through thousands of repetitions, albeit with a little less direct supervision than we had making work elbow-to-elbow with our teachers.  Mike keeps a steady stream of beautiful pots moving out into the world to sit side by side with their machine-made counterparts, so as not to forget East Fork’s unusual origin.