We are
what we grow
We are an apothecary with wildcrafted remedies and small batch provisions. Herbs, mushrooms, microgreens — bringing nutrients and ritual to the everyday.
Love Letters to the Land
Outback Hollow is a small farm dedicated to bringing nutrient-dense microgreens, hand-harvested mushrooms, botanical tinctures, slow infusions, small-batch soaps, and curious creations to our community. We grow varieties to help boost your quality of living and offer vitality to systems small and large.
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Microgreens
It’s precision-grown vitality, rooted in small-scale care and daily observation to offer convenient nutrients and superfoods to you and your family. Learn More
Apothecary
Small batches of incense, soap, salve, and tinctures steeped in ritual, crafted to carry the hush and heartbeat of the plants to your daily self-care. Learn More
Present-Tense Purpose
Long before we arrived, our Homestead was known as Wright’s Woods, the first stop east of Freeport on the interurban railway. Neighbors would gather here to picnic under the oaks, welcomed freely by William O. Wright. The bell that still hangs in our backyard, rang out to signal incoming trains, echoing across the prairie path that remains today.
Today, Outback Hollow is the land lives in the space between the edge of wild and tended, past and future, forgotten and remembered. “Outback” is a nod to the untamed, on the banks of the pecatonica river and the Land Down Under where one of our founders is from. “Hollow” is the place things return to—the oaks, the quiet, fertile, and the little strange. Together, it’s a place of cycles and contradictions, where growth comes from stillness and the old ways have found new form.
We’re simply picking up where the land left off—growing microgreens, mushrooms, herbs, and botanical goods in a way that respects the soil, the story, and the steady work of tending.
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