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Bloom & Gather

A day of floral artistry, botanical printing, and garden-inspired dining at Moondance Flower Farm.

Let Yourself Bloom

Saturday, August 15
9:30 AM–8:30 PM

Reserve Your Seat

Join us for an intimate, full-day creative retreat rooted in flowers, nature, seasonal beauty, and meaningful reconnection.

Throughout the day, you’ll explore the flower fields, create pressed flower art, learn cyanotype botanical printing, harvest seasonal blooms, help design a statement floral tablescape, and gather for a garden-inspired dinner surrounded by the flowers you helped bring to life.

A Day Designed to Help You Bloom

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A Day Designed to Help You Bloom ✿

Bloom & Gather was created for anyone craving a beautiful pause. A day to step away from everyday busyness, reconnect with your creativity, work with your hands, and spend time immersed in the flower fields of Moondance. This is part floral workshop, part botanical art experience, part garden gathering. Flowers are at the heart of the day, but the deeper invitation is to slow down, create something meaningful, connect with nature, and return to the most grounded version of yourself. You do not need to be an artist, florist, or experienced maker to join us. You only need a willingness to be present, curious, and open to beauty.

Let Yourself Bloom

Meet your Hosts

  • Lindsay McLaughlin

    CO-FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    Lindsay is the creative heart behind Moondance Flower Farm. She leads the farm's floral design, wedding artistry, and creative vision, helping guests discover that flowers are about more than beautiful arrangements -they're an invitation to slow down, notice the season, and reconnect with what matters.

    At Bloom & Gather, Lindsay will guide guests through floral design, botanical printing, and pressed flower art while creating an atmosphere that feels welcoming, inspiring, and deeply restorative.

  • Mark McLaughlin

    CO-FOUNDER & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    As co-founder and farm operations director, Mark oversees every stage of flower production - from seed and soil to harvest - growing more than 100 varieties of flowers each season using sustainable practices on Old Mission Peninsula.

    During Bloom & Gather, Mark will lead guests into the fields to share the story behind the flowers, how they're grown, and why locally grown blooms are unlike anything you'll find shipped across the country. His passion for the land and genuine love of sharing it with others make the farm itself one of the day's greatest teachers.

  • Meghan Schultz



    Meghan brings an artist's eye and years of professional floral experience to Moondance. Her background includes advanced floral training in both Madrid and New York City. She now leads floral design alongside Lindsay, helping create the signature Moondance style known for its organic movement, thoughtful color palettes, and seasonal beauty.

    At Bloom & Gather, Meghan will work alongside guests throughout the day, offering hands-on guidance, floral design techniques, and plenty of encouragement, ensuring everyone leaves with both beautiful creations and newfound confidence.

What You’ll Experience

Bloom & Gather is a thoughtfully guided full-day experience that moves through floral education, botanical art, seasonal design, and shared gathering.

Your day will include:

✿ Welcome coffee and pastries
✿ A guided tour through the Moondance flower fields
✿ Flower pressing and pressed flower art
✿ Cyanotype botanical printing
✿ A seasonal lunch
✿ Floral tablescape design theory
✿ Guided harvesting and flower conditioning
✿ Hands-on statement tablescape design
✿ Wine in the garden
✿ Time to photograph the finished tablescape
✿ A garden-inspired dinner prepared by Jen Kuhar of Mission Proper and shared around the table you helped create

Reserve Your Spot

  • Arrive at the farm and ease into the day with coffee, pastries, and a warm welcome. This opening time is designed to feel relaxed and unhurried, giving guests space to settle in, meet one another, and begin transitioning out of the pace of everyday life.

  • The day begins with introductions, a look at the creative experiences ahead, and a guided walk through the flower fields. Guests will get to know the farmers, connect with the group, and learn more about the seasonal blooms growing at Moondance. The tour will also introduce the basics of harvesting and conditioning flowers, setting the foundation for the hands-on floral work later in the day.

  • Guests will explore the quiet beauty of pressed flowers through a guided botanical art activity. This hands-on workshop offers a slower, more delicate way to work with flowers, transforming seasonal blooms into keepsake pieces inspired by the farm.

  • Guests will learn the cyanotype process, a sun-powered botanical printing technique that captures the silhouettes and textures of flowers and foliage. After a guided demonstration, each guest will create their own botanical print using materials gathered from the farm.

  • Midday, guests will pause for a fresh, relaxed lunch featuring charcuterie, vegetables, and seasonal bites. This is a chance to rest, connect with the group, and enjoy a slower moment before moving into the afternoon design portion of the day.

  • The afternoon begins with a guided lesson in floral tablescape design. Guests will learn how color, texture, height, spacing, scent, mechanics, and overall flow come together to create a thoughtful table experience. This portion helps guests understand not just how to arrange flowers, but how to design an atmosphere.

  • Guests will return to the fields to harvest flowers for the evening tablescape. With guidance from the Moondance team, they’ll learn how to select blooms, cut with intention, and properly condition flowers so they are ready to design with.

  • Using the flowers they harvested, guests will help create a lush, garden-inspired tablescape for the evening meal. Through demonstration and hands-on design, they’ll learn approachable floral mechanics and arrangement techniques while contributing to the final shared table.

  • As the final table is set and dinner preparations begin, guests will enjoy wine in the garden. This is a softer, celebratory pause in the day, offering time to wander, connect, take in the farm, and appreciate everything created throughout the experience.

  • Before dinner, guests will have time to photograph the completed tablescape with flowers, place settings, and final details in place. This moment captures the beauty of the shared creation and gives guests space to document the experience.

  • Garden-Inspired Dinner
    The day concludes with an intimate dinner gathered around the finished floral tablescape. Surrounded by the flowers they harvested and arranged, guests will enjoy a meaningful meal that brings together the full experience: nature, creativity, connection, local food, and the beauty of a summer evening at Moondance.

A Closer Look at Bloom & Gather

  • Bloom & Gather is designed for flower lovers, creative spirits, slow-living seekers, and anyone craving a meaningful day spent making something beautiful.

    You do not need floral design experience. You do not need to consider yourself artistic. You do not need to know how to “do it right.”

    Every part of the day will be guided, approachable, and supportive. The goal is not perfection. The goal is presence, creativity, connection, and the joy of working with seasonal flowers.

    This intimate experience is limited to 12 guests to keep the day personal, spacious, and intentional.

  • Bloom & Gather brings together seasonal flowers, botanical art, thoughtful design, local food, and time spent outdoors.

    The day begins with coffee, pastries, and a guided walk through the Moondance flower fields. From there, guests will move into hands-on creative experiences, including pressed flower art, cyanotype botanical printing, guided harvesting, flower conditioning, and floral tablescape design.

    Each part of the day builds toward the final gathering: a lush, garden-inspired table created with flowers harvested from the farm.

    Before dinner, guests will have time to enjoy drinks in the garden, wander the farm, connect with one another, and photograph the finished tablescape.

    The day concludes with a seasonal, garden-inspired three-course dinner prepared by Jen Kuhar of Mission Proper and shared around the table you helped create.

  • Bloom & Gather was created as a beautiful pause from the pace of everyday life.

    It is a day to slow down, work with your hands, reconnect with nature, and spend time surrounded by flowers, creativity, and community.

    Flowers are the heart of the experience, but the deeper invitation is to feel creatively restored, grounded, and fully present. Guests come for the blooms, but leave with a renewed sense of connection to the season, to themselves, and to the simple beauty of making something by hand.

  • Your Bloom & Gather ticket includes:

    ✿ Full-day access to the Bloom & Gather experience
    ✿ Welcome coffee and pastries
    ✿ Guided farm tour
    ✿ Pressed flower workshop, with your own press and glass ornament to take home
    ✿ Cyanotype botanical printing workshop, with art and a tote bag to take home
    ✿ Seasonal lunch
    ✿ Hands-on floral tablescape design lesson
    ✿ Guided harvesting and flower conditioning
    ✿ Drinks in the garden
    ✿ Seasonal, garden-inspired three-course dinner by Jen Kuhar of Mission Proper
    ✿ All creative materials and supplies
    ✿ Photography throughout the day
    ✿ A full day surrounded by flowers, nature, creativity, and community

  • Bloom & Gather was designed to be more than a day at the farm. It can also be the heart of a beautiful Northern Michigan weekend.

    Whether you’re coming from Traverse City, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Chicago, or beyond, we hope this experience gives you a meaningful reason to come north, slow down, and spend a summer weekend surrounded by flowers, creativity, local food, and the beauty of the season.

    Come in on Friday, settle into your stay, and ease into the weekend with dinner at Umbo for seafood or Taproot for farm to table. Spend Saturday at Moondance for a full day of flower harvesting, botanical art, seasonal design, wine in the garden, and dinner in bloom. Then let Sunday be slow: coffee at Waterbearer, lunch at Right Bower, a walk by the water, a farm stand visit, a winery stop on Old Mission Peninsula, or a hike through the Sleeping Bear Dunes before heading home.

    Looking for accommodations? There are many great hotels and Airbnbs in the area, but we recommend our friends at the Alexandra Inn for great ambience and water views/ access. 

    For guests traveling from farther away, Traverse City is served by Cherry Capital Airport, with flight options that may make a weekend trip more accessible. We recommend checking current routes and availability as you plan your travel.

    However you arrive, we hope Bloom & Gather feels like a reason to pause, reconnect, and experience Northern Michigan in full bloom.

Reserve Your Place at the Table

Bloom & Gather is an invitation to spend a summer day surrounded by flowers, creativity, seasonal food & the quiet magic of making something with your hands.

Come for the flowers. Leave creatively restored, connected to nature, and reminded of what it feels like to be fully present.

Saturday, August 15

9:30 AM at Moondance Flower Farm

12 seats available

Reserve Your Seat

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Your ticket includes the full Bloom & Gather experience: all workshop sessions, flowers and materials, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and refreshments throughout the day. You’ll take home a Moondance flower press, cyanotype art and tote bag you create, a pressed flower ornament you create, and a statement floral arrangement you create.

  • Not at all. Bloom & Gather is designed for flower lovers with any background - including no experience at all! All sessions are beginner-friendly, though those with previous floral design, gardening, or art training will have opportunities to deepen their knowledge.

  • Absolutely. We expect many guests will attend solo. Bloom & Gather is designed to feel collaborative, welcoming, and community-oriented. We’ll start our day strangers and end with dinner at a communal table with flowers we create together.

  • Yes. We will inquire about dietary restrictions after purchase to ensure our menus are inclusive for all participants.

  • Dress comfortably for a full day outdoors and on the farm. We recommend layers, comfortable shoes that can get dirty, sunscreen, and water. You may wish to bring a change of clothes for dinner, though that is not necessary.

  • Bloom & Gather is hosted by Moondance Flower Farm on Old Mission Peninsula, in Traverse City Michigan. TVC airport offers many direct flights during the summer, as well as rental cars to explore the surrounding region. We expect guests to drive directly to the property.

  • Accommodations are not included, but there are plenty of nearby hotels and Airbnbs if you'd like to turn Bloom & Gather into a little getaway.

  • No. While we will spend much of the day outdoors, we will have tented areas available, as well as use of our studio space as necessary in the event of inclement weather.

  • Tickets are nonrefundable due to the custom and limited nature of this experience. Tickets are transferrable to another participant up to 48 hours before the event.