Welcome to the Blue Owl!

Blue Owl Garden Emporium herb farm offers locally and sustainably grown culinary herbs, edible flowers, herbal seasoning blends and teas, and a variety of other herbal concoctions. With about 200 dried herbs available during the winter and as many as 175 fresh ones during the summer, it's likely we can fill your every culinary herb need. All grown in Licking Co. Ohio without synthetic pesticides or artificial fertilizers.

We also offer culinary mushrooms, grow-your-own mushroom logs, native fruits, and various other forest edibles in season from our forest farm, Blue Owl Hollow. Our mushroom selection is seasonal and includes: shiitake, nameko, chestnut, mukitake, several oysters, wine-cap stropharia, lion's mane, reishi, turkey tail, and maitake. Not content with mere comestibles, we have a growing line of forest-derived crafts, such as rustic "rosewood" buttons (cleverly created from that invasive shrub every forest landowner loves to hate, multiflora rose!), fatwood firestarters, and Swedish log candles.

Our fascination with unusual-but-useful plants ensures that we always have something of interest on hand. Blue Owl products are available at several Central Ohio farmers markets and small businesses. Yes, inflation seems to be the new normal, but you can keep more of those dollars within our community by visiting your favorite Central Ohio farmers markets and patronizing other locally-owned businesses!

Happy Lunar New Year 2026!

I'm still not quite sure where 2025 went -- it was certainly a successful and very busy market season -- but here we are well into 2026 already. If I took the time, I could probably come up with a pretty good list of 2025 highlights (and some "challenges") that might account for how time sped by so fast, but instead let's look ahead to 2026. Of particular note: we will be embarking on some major construction projects, at both farms, that will cause significant disruption to Blue Owl's growing, harvesting, processing, and marketing capabilities and routines... at least in the near term. As a result, in 2026 we will only be selling at the Worthington summer farmer's market on the last Saturday of each month. If all goes well, we will be back at the Worthington winter market as usual next fall. Stay tuned for project updates...

2026 Mushroom Workshare:

Signups for Blue Owl's 2026 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 2026 schedule:

Past news items of interest, including links to various presentation materials, are also available.

Feb 2026

Loose-leaf teas $10:

Seasonings $8:

Dried herbs
(~150 varieties)

Forest products:

Crafted products: