2025 Minnesota Peony Society Educational Meeting.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
“It Began with a Dream”
Michelle Ovans will share “It Began with a Dream” PowerPoint presentation on her journey from US Navy to becoming a Specialty Cut Flower Grower. This presentation will take you through the phases of how she became a peony grower and how she developed a festival that draws over 4K visitors to Beaver Dam annually.
This event will be held at the Heritage Room
Bachman’s on Lyndale
6010 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55419
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Member Social: 11:30 am
Business Meeting: 12:00 pm
Michelle’s Presentation: 12:30 pm
Michelle Ovans is the owner of Ovans Peony Farm and is the founding member of the Wisconsin Arts & Peony Festival which is held annually in the second week of June which brings in international visitors expanding tourism in Beaver Dam WI. She is a specialty cut flower grower specializing in Floral-grade peonies. She is the current Wisconsin Peony Society President and member of the American Peony Society, Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and a Graduate of the Floret Cut Flower Grower School and the UW Wisconsin’s Cut Flower Grower School. She has been growing peonies for cut flower production since 2009.
