This arrangement sets up a direct relationship between the members and the customers because the members staff the store themselves. All members participate in all the aspects of the store such as advertising, book-keeping and maintenance. Decisions that affect the store are reached by consensus. All of the work in the store is food, microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe. The majority of the work is functional kitchenware such as mugs, pitchers, casseroles, baking dishes, utensil jars, platters, teapots, etc.
Some unique items are lamps, bird feeders, and oil candles.
Most members are open to doing custom orders. The ceramacists work in stoneware, porcelain, and earthenware with several different types of matte and gloss glazes. The different types of clay bodies contain varying amounts of iron, which colors the clay. Reduction firing pulls the oxygen out of the clay and the glaze, creating a micro- crystalline structure, which gives depth to the glaze.