Today we enjoyed a short drive to Woodburn to see the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. Because of the unusually warm winter, bulbs started blooming almost two weeks early so the farm opened earlier than usual. We caught it at a perfect time with the bulbs just opened recently and still unharmed by rain or wind. We took a trolley ride into the field where we learned that the farm consists of about 160 acres but, only 40 acres are planted with bulbs each year and then bulbs are rotated to the other areas in a four year cycle. The other sections are planted with things like alfalfa so the land can rest and be revitalized.
Here we're riding on a hay wagon from the parking lot to the field of flowers. The farm is very child friendly and the children were having a wonderful time taking rides on their little "cow trains" and eating lots of "fair food". Dogs were everywhere so Bella got to play, too.
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