About Us

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 I'm, Bruce Castle, husband, father, dog whisperer, expounder and exaggerator of my fishing skills and my pottery genius!  

Joel, my wife of 44 years, and I have had four kids together, and now four grandkids too, and she is usually there at the markets helping sell pottery.  I do all the pottery action, but she is the one with the organizing genes and will wrap your pottery for each sale with a level of precision only known in diamond cutting.  

 This is our latest pottery studio employee is Toasty.  We adopted her from the Rescue in Newberg called "Pawsativity."  Richard, Carol, Tessa and Ashley are the force that makes what they do so phenomenal.  You can learn more about them at: https://pawsitivelysaved.org

Her official title is: Quality Control Dept Head.   

I keep up the training, but she has yet to do anything productive pottery wise.  Well, she did once protect me from a sketchy plastic bag rolling down the street the other day, so there is . . . progress.  

She is pretty content not helping any pottery get out the door.   But the plastic bags were much less likely to loiter in front of the studio now.   

Currently, we sell all our wares at open air markets and festivals.   You can find a list of them on the Home Page.  There is a link to it, just below:

Or, just message us from our Contact Us page, and we can bring something for you to the next market and you have NO SHIPPING!  

We like open air markets and festivals.  We don't like them when they get canceled.  We don't like them when the coast acts like the coast and the wind, rain, hail and flash floods show up.  

But we like meeting people and sharing a few stories and jokes.  

And frankly, no one knows our product like we do, since all of our stuff I personally make my own self, from scratch.  

 “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows 

Pictured here is Joel and Tuesday in a drift boat I built.  Tuesday is no longer with us, but will remain in our hearts forever.  

"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children." - Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet, from "Rilke's Book of Hours" (1905).

   We love floating rivers, especially when that means the day ends on a white sand beach, sitting at a camp fire.   

Joel and I mess about in boats whenever we can. 

 I grew up in Boise, Idaho.  My working career started early.  I started mowing lawns at the age of ten for extra money.  

I've had a full time work--most of the time--since I was 14.  I washed dishes in restaurants, bailed and bucked hay for a penny a bail, and later was a garbage collector, back when the cans were in the back of the house, and wheels on trash cans hadn't been thought of yet.  The best part of the job was hanging on the back of the truck when snow smacked you in the face.  The summer smells and flies made the freezing snow seem ideal.  Then I joined the Carpenter's Union, till interest rates went higher than since the civil war.   I worked full time as a janitor, and a security guard, and went to collage full time, and finally finished with a total of 16 years invested.  I became a stock broker, till I found the job was really talking blue haired ladies out of CD's and into stocks.  I was a boat builder, and then I ran an employment business with up to eight employees.   

Now I'm doing pottery, and the only employee is a puppy named Toasty.  

My wife and I just celebrated our 44th anniversary.  We have four of the world's most phenomenal kids ever, and four energetic little ones that call us Grammie and Grampy.  

Oh, and you can tell from the photo, we are Duck Fans.