Tickets, tulip picking at $2 a stem, preview nights, parking and dogs at Richfield's tulip farm, plus its summer bouquet mornings and October Fall Fest.
For one Saturday in May, a produce farm on the east side of Richfield turns into a ticketed tulip festival. Happy Day Farmhaus is a working farm on Maple Road that grows produce and flowers, sells farm shares, and opens to the public only for ticketed events. The big one is Tulip Fest, which in 2026 meant 22,000 hand-planted tulips on May 9.
The farm says plainly that it does not keep regular hours, so do not drive out on a whim; every visit runs through one of its events. Its address is W188N13251 Maple Road in Richfield, though its own site also uses a Germantown label in places, so trust the street address over the town name.
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Tulip Fest: what happened in 2026
The 2026 festival was the sixth, held on Saturday, May 9, with May 16 set aside as the rain date. The farm warns that the date can move with the weather and with when the tulips decide to bloom.
Admission was $10 per person, and children 12 and under got in free. It is a ticketed event only, and the farm says it sells out fast every year, so buy online through its ticket page as soon as the date is announced.
The field has grown quickly: Spectrum News reported 12,000 tulips for the 2025 festival, and the farm's 2026 count was 22,000. Older write-ups that describe a free festival with $5 parking date from the early years, so ignore them.
Picking tulips and the rest of the day
You can take tulips home: the tulip harvest is priced at $2 per stem, dug on the spot. Plant starts and farm produce are on sale too, so bring a bag.
The 2026 line-up ran music from DJ Fuzzy Logic from 11am to 2pm and Joe Wray from 2 to 5pm, with photos from noon to 3pm and a bubble artist at midday. Food trucks and vendors included Flour Girl & Flame, Heirloom MKE, Tots on the Street, Joy Ice Cream Social and Vennture Brew Co, with free face painting for children.
The Washington County Humane Society also set up at the 2026 festival. The farm does not post overall festival hours, so use the music times as a rough guide to the schedule.
Preview nights before the festival
In the week before Tulip Fest the farm runs smaller preview evenings, and in 2026 they were May 6, 7 and 8, with the May 8 night selling out. The May 7 evening, called Tulip Pickin' and Prosecco Sippin', ran from 5:30 to 7pm and included 10 tulip stems and one drink. Preview tickets went on sale on April 1, which is the date to watch if you want the quieter version.
Planning for next year's Tulip Fest
Start watching the farm's events page in March, because in 2026 the preview-night tickets were released on April 1, and the farm says the main festival sells out fast every year. Keep the following Saturday free as well, since the farm sets a rain date a week after the main date and moves the festival to match the bloom. Arrive with time for the walk from the off-site parking, and if the 2026 policy holds, children 12 and under get in free.
Bouquet Cafe in summer and Fall Fest in October
Tulips are not the only season. In July and August 2026 the farm ran a Bouquet Cafe on Sundays at 10am for $30 a person, with flowers pre-cut in buckets for you to arrange and coffee included.
In October it hosts Pizza on the Farm and Fall Fest, which in 2026 moved to Sunday, October 4 because of rain and ran from 4 to 7pm. Entry was $8 a person with children free, pizza was extra, and the farm said it would not accept walk-ups or cash at the gate. Pumpkins, fall decor, flowers and live music filled out the evening.
Farm shares and the online farm stand
Outside event days, the way to buy from Happy Day Farmhaus is through its Farm Share, a community-supported agriculture box, or its online farm stand. It also runs a Worker Share program, which trades help on the farm for produce. Sign-up details are on the farm's own site.
Parking, dogs and getting there
Parking is off site: for Tulip Fest the farm's free parking was about a quarter mile walk from the field, and there is no shuttle, though you can drop people off at the farm. For Fall Fest the farm gave the walk as about 0.3 mile, so wear shoes that can handle a field.
Dogs are welcome on a leash at all times. The Washington County Humane Society's table makes it a natural day out for dog owners.
Coffee, gifts and a beer nearby
Nutman Co, in the same building, stocks over 200 products, including local artisan consignments.
For a drink afterwards, Belshire Brewing's taproom is about 2.6 miles west and opens at 1pm on Saturday.
For lunch after the field, the Richfield restaurant pockets on Hubertus Road and Highway 164 are about 4 to 6 miles west in a straight line.
To make a spring weekend of it, Maple Syrup Family Day and the mill tours at Richfield Historical Park are in the full Richfield calendar of mill days and lake trails.
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Published October 26, 2026
