It's very easy to grow. Yes dormant in winter. It's 28 degrees here and the ground is frozen. So is the Oregano. If you know someone with a decent vegetable garden in your neighborhood, you might be able to trade eggs for a shovelful. Should also be easy to find in the local nursery in the Spring. A lot of people grow little pots of it inside their house on the window sill. That would be sweet for cooking with but not near enough to add to a FF bucket.
How about Sams or Costco? buying it dried in bulk size jars. I am going to Sams end of next week I'll see what they want for it there.
My garden is surrounded by 1" chicken mesh. They will go under it if you don't bury it.
For those who plan to plant it, what works nicely to keep it from taking over EVERYTHING like a jungle is to use the largest clay pot you can find minus the bottom tray, sink it down into the ground so the lip is above ground, and grow your oregano in there. Works for mint and other great herbs that are a bit aggressive.
"Patches" was hatched from a brown egg, but looks like an EE chick. I've been waiting for months for her to be old enough to lay eggs to see if I'd get "blue" eggs from her. Thursday as I was holding Patches I finally noticed the feathers on HIS back and his neck feathers. It hadn't penetrated my mind until then. Patches will be 7mo on the 25th. He loves the FF.
And why would we use it unless needed? I mean if one isn't sick why would we be adding it to our ff? unless it does more like improving immune system. I'll have to do more reading. I can understand why they would use it in factory farms situations but back yard not so sure.
