The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm will be hosting its annual Tulip Festival in Woodburn, Oregon from late March to early May. 

Since 1984, the family-run festival has engaged the community and drawn in visitors from all 50 states and around the world.

The festival’s walkable tulip fields span approximately 40 acres, filled with over 100 different varieties of tulips and a total flower count in the millions. In addition to viewing, the tulips will also be available for purchase fresh-cut, as potted bulbs and to pre-order for the fall.

Beyond the flowers themselves, the Tulip Festival sports a handful of other attractions, including a café, wine-tasting room and food/craft market. Special events will also be held at the farm during the festival season, including fundraisers for charities like the Alzheimer’s Association and American Cancer Society, as well as a wine tasting partnering with local wineries and an Easter celebration.

The driving force behind the annual festival is the Iverson family, the owners and operators of the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm since 1950. As a third-generation family member, Farm and Operations Manager Emily Iverson has watched firsthand as the farm has shifted to increase emphasis on community building through the Tulip Festival.

“We’re a full-scale farm, so as a kid, we were farming upwards of 2,000 acres,” said Iverson. “We’re slowly dropping the acreage … to focus more on the agritourism operation while still also farming.”

A more sudden change that the farm underwent was the switch to online ticketing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We used to have about 3 miles of traffic down our country roads and about 2-hour wait times to get into our property,” Iverson said. “When Covid hit and we shifted to online only, we were able to spread out our traffic, to where we have no lines and we have less people on the property at a time. So it just makes for a nicer, more intimate experience.”

Tickets are online only and available for purchase on the Wooden Shoe website. Iverson recommends checking the bloom status page, which is also on the farm’s website, encouraging visitors to plan trips around their desired bloom conditions. For more help choosing visit dates, she also suggests reaching out through the farm’s Instagram page.

“We’re so fortunate to be able to open our property for people to come to one place to enjoy our flowers,” Iverson said. “It’s an open area for all, and it’s a very diverse event that we hold near and dear to our hearts … it’s just meeting people every season that really makes this feel worthwhile.”