Midwest Tulip Fest

When last I wrote about Kuipers Family Farm, I sung the praises of their apple picking and sunflower features, with a blurb about the pumpkin experience I’d never actually done. Well, I’ve still never been to their pumpkin picking, but they’ve now added a tulip festival!

In front of a building labeled "The Farmstand," a metal structure is completely surrounded by pink tulips, with a gradient from darker in the middle of the petals to lighter on the outside, and yellow at the very bottom. There are occasional white and yellow tulips interspersed.

Like the sunflowers, the tulips span seven acres, and you can pay extra to cut your own and bring them home. Or, if you have cats like ours who don’t understand “don’t chew that” (tulips are bad for them), you can just pay admission to wander and enjoy. It’s in the same area as the pumpkins with what I assume are year-round features (though again, never having been to the latter, I can only infer). These include a sort of jungle gym, games like tetherball, and a small zoo! There are also food vendors. All in all, it was a lot bigger than I expected, and of course the tulips were gorgeous! Their season is over now, but there’s always next year.

A swathe of deep purple tulips, almost black, on tall green stems. Seemingly much taller for the fact that they were photographed at their own height.
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