{"id":1306,"date":"2019-01-23T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/?page_id=1306"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:45:16","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/?page_id=1306","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1306\" class=\"elementor elementor-1306\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ccdc95 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6ccdc95\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f6adc0\" data-id=\"4f6adc0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a400379 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a400379\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c9222c3\" data-id=\"c9222c3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e489a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7e489a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Inspiration rocks!<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2657e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2657e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>materials, materials, materials<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family road trips are a fun way to discover new materials. We always keep an eye out for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">roadcuts and creek beds when exploring new places. A backpack full of gravel is an exciting, albeit heavy, souvenir that can lead to a new line of pots!\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our kids help sieve and process the rocks, and I do melt tests in the kiln. Many samples don\u2019t work out, often the particle size is too small or composed of too much limestone. These four locations have yielded my favorite gravels so far, chosen for the color and texture they add to stoneware and porcelain clays. I hope you find them as irresistible as we do!<\/span><\/p><p>Our main clay bodies are made here in Austin, and we add collected materials from the locations below to our planters.<\/p><p>All glazes are lead free.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>Colorado River<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colorado River in Texas is 862 miles long! We\u2019ve gathered samples from several locations on the banks of the Colorado in Central Texas. Most samples had far too much limestone for functional pottery, but this was an exception. This gravel is a subtle blend of light colored granite and quartz, that when fired in stoneware clay has a sandy beachy texture.<\/span><\/p><p><b>West Texas<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The volcanic history of West Texas is easy to see in these iron-rich rocks. Creek beds in the Alpine and Fort Davis area collect deposits of trachyte, rhyolite, and basalt from the surrounding mountains. When blended into stoneware clay, these volcanic rocks melt, creating mini lava eruptions on the surface of the pot!<\/span><\/p><p><b>Llano Uplift<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Llano Uplift in Central Texas is an ancient geologic dome of Precambrian rock. Geologists have identified 241 different rocks and minerals in the area. The creek beds these rocks were collected from are rich in gneiss, granite, and quartz. Mixed into stoneware clays, these rocks add hues of pink, cream, and grey and a rugged texture to our planters.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Little Missouri River<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This gravel is collected from creek beds in the Ouachita Mountains that feed into the Little Missouri River in Arkansas. The Ouachita Mountains are composed of sedimentary rocks including shale, siltstone, and novaculite. This fine gravel adds deep reds, browns, and greys to our stoneware and a soft pebbly texture that\u2019s hard to put down!<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration rocks! materials, materials, materials Family road trips are a fun way to discover new materials. We always keep an eye out for roadcuts and creek beds when exploring new places. A backpack full of gravel is an exciting, albeit heavy, souvenir that can lead to a new line of pots!\u00a0 Our kids help sieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmerandersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}