Opening for the season on Mother’s Day weekend this year, CountrySide Gardens customers will be greeted by new owners and husband and wife team Chloe and Andrew Near.
The 2025 season, which officially starts May 9, is one that Chloe said her and Andrew are eager to begin and get going. The couple, who relocated and made the move up north to Leelanau to purchase the property and business, have both loved the area since they first started visiting. Chloe said growing up, her parents used to own a condo at Sugar Loaf and they would come up to spend time as often as they could. For the last 15 years though, Chloe said her parents have been in the Northport area, so they’ve made a point to visit them there as well.
At the end of the 2024 season, the previous CountrySide owners’ Sheila and Ozzy Osburn, who operated the Cedar area garden center for nearly four decades, handed over the reins to Chloe and Andrew.
