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🚫 CLOSED MEMORIAL DAY 🚫

❗We have made the difficult decision to close the farm today, Monday, May 26th due to the weather and muddy conditions at the farm❗

We have received over an inch of rain with continued rain forecasted through at least 11:00am and then potentially again later this afternoon. There is no way we can get the farm dried up enough (and to be able to use the parking lot) to be able to open today. Your safety and experience are always our number one priority and we’ve decided we just can’t ensure that with today’s farm conditions and the forecast.

We are sad to be losing today but we will see y’all for the final two days of the Sunflower Festival this Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st! 🌻

🌻🎉 THIS WEEKEND 🎉🌻

• May 17th & May 18th •

We’ve got another beautiful Sunflower Festival weekend ahead! Here are some current photos of our flower field.

There are a few updates we want you to know:

🌻 Our field is blooming and going to be beautiful for this weekend!

🌻 Unfortunately, we are nervous to let y’all pick the main field and risk having too many flowers picked out

🌻 We will only have U-pick flowers while flowers last. We recommend visiting on Saturday if you want to pick flowers as we can’t guarantee we will have enough left by Sunday.

🎟️ Admission tickets can be purchased here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/sunflower-festival-2025-tickets-215495

⏰ Farm Hours:

Saturday, May 17th | 10:00am – 8:00pm

Sunday, May 18th | 10:00am – 8:00pm

*Admissions end 1 hour prior to close*

Included in admission this weekend:

🌻 Sunflower & zinnia flower fields with photo ops

🎶 LIVE music from 12:00-3:00pm

🐐 Farm Animal Barn

🐝 Beeline Mini Zip lines

🌽 Giant Corn Bin

🐂 Cattle Drive Barrel Train rides

🧡 Shaded Jump Pillow

🤸🏻‍♂️ Round Bale Rollers

🦆 Duck Races

😬 Barn & Truck Slides

🏀 Grain Bin Ball

🐎 Pony Hop Races

& so much more!

🍓Strawberry U-Pick update: This heat is great for our flowers but hard on our berries. We are 99% sure our season is over as our plants are bare. And stressed from this heat. There will NOT be strawberry picking available this weekend (sorry!)

Don’t miss our delicious festival food items such as our: Texas-size pretzels 🥨 Fresh Lemonades 🍋 Fresh popped Kettle Corn 🍿Steak Street Tacos & Carrie’s fresh-made salsa 🌮 Corn in a cup🌽 strawberry menu items like fresh strawberry donuts & pureed strawberry slushes! 🍓

🎶LIVE MUSIC by:

Jayme Wade Saturday from 12:00pm – 3:00pm

JP Music Sunday from 12:00pm – 3:00pm

💲Admission is just $16 per person

(2 & under is free)

📍We are located just 10 minutes north of Waco and 1 hour south of DFW

🏠 Address of the farm: 7929 Heritage Parkway, West, TX 76691

🌻 The 4th Annual Sunflower Festival is every Saturday & Sunday from May 10th – June 1st & Memorial Day! 🇺🇸

Western Belle, “Where Memories Grow”

🌻 Flower Field Update 🌻

May 12, 2025

We’ve got flowers blooming! The sunshine and heat is here and it is actually GREAT for the flower fields. Sadly it is putting an end to our strawberry U-pick season but we are grateful we got 6 weeks of picking!

 

With all the forecasted heat this week, we will DEFINITELY have a field full of blooms by our Sunflower Festival on May 17th & 18th!

Our other field is doing much better now also with all this heat and sunshine. They are looking like they will come into bloom by our Memorial Day weekend and for the weekend following that as well. Thankfully the rainy, cloudy & cool days seem to be behind us and our flowers are growing and blooming!

Stay tuned every Friday for flower field updates! We will post detailed updates and photos for you.

Tickets can be purchased at the farm or online and they are NOT date specific for the full festival happening every weekend through June 1st:

https://www.simpletix.com/e/sunflower-festival-2025-tickets-215495

Looking for just flower field photo sessions and NOT the full festival? Our weekday flower field sunset sessions are perfect for you! A discounted admission rate and no time limit. The farm is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 5:00-8:30pm and tickets ARE date specific and limited. Get your weekday tickets here:

https://www.simpletix.com/e/sunflower-sunset-sessions-tickets-215944

 

🌻Friday Flower Field Update 🌻

May 9, 2025

 

Every Friday, we will give you detailed updates on our flower fields. So, if you are visiting during our Sunflower Festival primarily for the flowers, you can time your visit based on the flower field blooms. 🤠

We are going to have the most BEAUTIFUL spring weekend ahead. A Sunflower Festival weekend NOT in the 90s?! How did we get so lucky?!☀️

While the cooler, and overcast weather has been nice, it has NOT been ideal for our flowers. Our flowers needed that heat and sunshine to push them to grow and bloom.

We are a tad behind schedule due to the almost 5” of rain we’ve had the past two weeks. Thankfully, we have had a break in the rain and the fields are drying out and the flowers are growing. We are starting to see shades of yellow peaking out in our smaller field and it’s exciting! 🌻

So as of now, our smaller field is what will come into bloom for the May 10th- May 23rd dates. We have SO MANY flowers that are so close and starting to bloom for this weekend.

❗️Unfortunately, we will NOT have a field full of flowers for this weekend though. Therefore, a reminder that we will NOT be able to allow you to pick any flowers this weekend❗️

If we did, we would have too many cut out of our fields and we’d risk disappointing you. So, we are going to lose potential flower sales to protect what flowers we do have blooming for y’all to enjoy.

The larger field has been struggling. The flowers are growing but the wet past few weeks has been hard on those flowers and they’ve shown it by turning a lighter green/yellow color. Sunflowers are resilient to an extent and we are still thinking that larger field will pull through and will be blooming just in time for Memorial Day weekend and the weekend after that (May 31-June 1st).

So, if you want the most beautiful weather and some flowers blooming, this weekend is going to be AMAZING! If you want the flower fields in full bloom, we are going to recommend that you wait at least a week. As always, stay tuned for weekly flower field updates! We post almost daily to our Facebook & Instagram stories too!

Don’t forget! Our PRESALE ENDS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! Save $2 off your General Admission to the Sunflower Festival 2025! 🌻 https://www.simpletix.com/e/sunflower-festival-2025-tickets-215495

❗️🌻IMPORTANT WEEKEND UPDATE 🌻❗️

First, we CAN’T WAIT for this beautiful Mother’s Day opening weekend ahead! ☀️

However, we wanted to update you on the status of the flower fields with an important update! Here’s the key details:

❗️Our sunflowers & zinnias are just starting to bloom.

❗️Therefore, to preserve flowers for everyone to enjoy/take photos with, we will NOT have the flower field U-pick available on opening weekend (we are sad about it!)

❗️The good news? We WILL have the Strawberry U-Pick open!

 

Here’s the details:

1. The past week has brought LOTS of rain and cloudy/cooler weather than we had hoped for. This has slowed the bloom of the flower fields. We WILL have sunflowers & zinnias blooming, just not as many as we had hoped for. It is the beginning of our flower field blooms and it looks like our “peak bloom” timeframe for our larger field is going to be closer to Memorial Day weekend. Therefore, if you are coming mainly for the flowers, we are recommending that you wait a weekend or two. If you are coming for the activities and some flowers, this is going to be a COOLER and BEAUTIFUL weekend to be at the farm!
2. We are NOT going to allow any flowers to be picked on opening weekend. This will ensure that everyone has sunflowers and zinnias to enjoy and take photos with. Trust us, this is NOT ideal, but we are trying to ensure that our fields are not cut clean of what flowers we will have blooming. We’d rather lose flower sales than disappoint you; our customers.
3. The mild weather means we still have strawberries! They are recovering from all the rain the past two weeks and we have a LOT of fruit that is about 1-2 days out from being ripe which means we WILL have strawberries to pick on Saturday! It is a first come, first serve basis and the Strawberry U-Pick will be open as long as we have berries to pick! Come early Saturday if you want to pick berries! They will be $6 per pound and we have the picking containers for you! (Keep in mind, admission is required to pick berries during the festival hours)

See y’all for the most beautiful opening weekend weather we’ve probably ever had… A Sunflower Festival weekend that we aren’t all sweating 🙂