So where (and when) can you find Blue Owl?

Here are the main outlets for items raised at Blue Owl Hollow and Blue Owl Garden Emporium:

Worthington Summer Farmers Market
During the summer, we sell May through October at the Worthington Summer Farmer's Market, held on High Street in downtown historic Worthington, OH, on Saturday mornings from 8 AM to noon. Our full range of products will be available, including fresh and dried herbs, mushrooms, herbal teas, seasonings, edible flowers, unusual small fruits and much more. To give us a chance to stock up on herbal goodness for the winter months, we'll only be there every other week during the busy summer season, but our Products page gives you an idea of what to expect when we are there.
Worthington Winter Farmers Market
During the winter, we sell at the Worthington Indoor Market, held at The Shops at Worthington Mall, 7227 N. High Street (just off I-270), Worthington OH. We sell there Saturdays, from 9 AM to noon. The 2024-24 season is the market's biggest indoor season yet with over 85 vendors, come and check it out! We have our normal selection of products and hopefully will be able to add some new teas and seasonings as the season progresses.
Keller Market House
A selection of Blue Owl herbal teas, seasoning blends, and other value-added products are available for sale year-round at this farm store featuring local foods & artisans inside one of the restored historic buildings in downtown Lancaster OH.

2024-25 Blue Owl Schedule:

Worthington Winter Indoor Farmers Market: Here's our full winter market schedule:
  • Nov 4 - 16: at market
  • Nov 23-30: in Japan for Thanksgiving
  • Dec 7 - 21: at market
  • Dec 28 - Jan. 18: Blue Owl winter sanity break, not at market
  • Jan 25 - Feb. 8: at market
  • Feb 15: OEFFA conference, not at market
  • Feb 22 - Mar 15: at market
  • Mar 22: Spring break, not at market
  • Mar 29 - Apr 19: at market
  • Apr 26: break to change gears between summer and winter markets, not at market

Workshares, Workshops, Other Events

Keller Market House: Plan Your Herb Garden

Thursday, February 20th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Keller Market House, Lancaster OH
Make this the year you grow your own herbs! Janell Baran of Blue Owl Garden Emporium will explain which herbs grow well here in Ohio, how their growing requirements differ from vegetables or flowers, choosing between seeds and plant starts, timing your plantings, and much more. Participants will have the opportunity to sow seed in 3" pots to take home for a head start on this summer's herbal bounty. Class fee is $35. Register at the Keller Market House website.

Keller Market House: Mushroom Production for the Home Grower

Monday, March 10th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Keller Market House, Lancaster OH
Mushrooms make a wonderful complement to freshly harvested herbs and vegetables from your garden and are not any more difficult to grow. Janell Baran of Blue Owl Hollow Forest Farm will demonstrate a straight-forward log inoculation technique suitable for small-scale production of several different culinary mushrooms such as shiitake, oyster, and lion's mane. Given the right situation and basic maintenance, these logs will thrive for years in your yard, shade garden, or woodlot. Log harvesting, site selection, care of inoculated logs, and various mushroom cultivation resources will be discussed. Optional: In your registration, you may choose to pre-order an inoculated mushroom log from Blue Owl to take home the night of the class. Class fee is $35, shiitake-inoculated logs are $50. Please RSVP by calling Keller Market House at 740-277-6305 or emailing info@kellermarkethouse.org.

2025 Mushroom Workshare Dates & Times:

Signups for Blue Owl's 2025 mushroom workshare dates are open; come learn everything there is to know about growing mushrooms on logs. Here's how it works:

Every Sunday afternoon (noon-4) and Tuesday all-day (10-6) for about 8 weeks in very early spring, you have the opportunity to join me in renewing Blue Owl Hollow's mushroom production infrastructure by inoculating new hardwood logs with various types of culinary mushroom spawn. You'll learn the process, get a tour of our mushroom production area, and have the opportunity to earn your own log to take home. Email if you are interested, pre-registration is REQUIRED. If a date is marked FULL but it's the only time you can make it, please let me know anyway; we can add you to a waiting list, since cancellations do occur.

Here's the 2025 schedule:

  • Sunday, March 2
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., March 4
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, March 9
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., March 11
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, March 16
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., March 18
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, March 23
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., March 25
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, March 30
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., April 1
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, April 6
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., April 8
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, April 13
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., April 15
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues., April 22
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, April 27
    12 PM - 4 PM
  • Tues., April 29
    10 AM - 2 PM & 2 PM - 6 PM

Introducing the Blue Owl Herb Growing workshare!

Many people have asked about an herb-focused workshare and I think I've finally found the right project: herb bed re-vitalization and maintenance. With 60+ raised production beds for growing herbs, the need to be reinforcing, re-planting, weeding, fertilizing, and generally maintaining beds is never-ending. Sometimes it's just a matter of weeding and mulching existing plantings, but often a bed pretty much needs to be rebuilt from scratch. One weekend of every month during the growing season (May - October, Saturday or Sunday afternoons, depending on weather), you are welcome to join Janell in renewing one of the Blue Owl Garden Emporium production beds from the ground up. While we work, we'll talk about soils and fertility, crop rotation, pest control, the history and growing requirements of specific herbs, planting techniques, weeding strategies, etc. The workshare is free and participants will leave with a better understanding of how to construct long-term planting areas... and most likely also take away plant starts, herb cuttings, seeds, or other gifts from the garden.

You are also invited to join us on a weekday the week before the workshare to assist in gathering the necessary materials for bed building, primarily rocks gathered from along the forest farm trail system. Some trail maintenance may be necessary to accomplish this task -- cutting up downed trees, filling in washed out areas, putting in water bars, etc. -- so it's a great opportunity to learn hands-on about forest farming, too.

Note: this will be a new workshare, so there'll undoubtedly be some refinement required as we go along, please be patient. As with the mushroom workshare, pre-registration is REQUIRED. Email if you are interested or have any questions!

Tentative 2025 schedule (subject to rescheduling due to weather):

  • Tues., May 13
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, May 18
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues., June 17
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, June 22
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues., June 15
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, July 20
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues., August 12
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, August 17
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues.,September 9
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, September 14
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM
  • Tues.,October 14
    Gathering Materials 10 AM - 6 PM
  • Sunday, October 19
    Raised Bed Building 12 PM - 6 PM

January 2025

Loose-leaf teas:

Seasonings:

Dried herbs
(~150 varieties)

Forest products:

Crafted products: