Maris Farms Baby Animals & Blooms

Spring at Maris Farms is not just a tulip field with a few goats off to the side. It’s a full-ticket seasonal event now — part flower outing, part petting-zoo day, part all-ages farm play. The immediate news is simple: Baby Animals & Blooms is back on the calendar for May 2–3 and May 9–10 in Buckley, with daily hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. But the bigger thing is how much the event has expanded beyond the basic “walk around, take photos, go home” formula. ### What is this event, exactly? Baby Animals & Blooms is Maris Farms’ spring festival. The headline attractions are what the name promises — baby animal encounters and tulip fields — but the farm is packaging it as a broader seasonal visit rather than a narrow flower festival. Maris describes it as a spring event with baby animals, blooms, food, shopping, and a bunch of built-in activities for kids and families. ### When can people actually go? The 2026 run happens on select weekends, not every day. The official dates are April 25–26, May 2–3, and May 9–10, with the remaining dates now being the two May weekends. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. That matters because this is the kind of event people can easily assume is open all week once the flowers are blooming — but it isn’t. ### What do you get with a ticket? Turns out the ticket is doing more work than the event name suggests. Maris’ ticket page says admission includes baby animal encounters with goats, lambs, piglets, and ducklings, plus tulip fields and photo setups. It also includes 40-plus farm attractions, a Maker’s Market, and on-site food and treats. So this is less “pay to look at flowers” and more “pay for a day on the farm.” ### What’s special about this weekend? May 2–3 is the event’s “Superheroes” themed weekend. Maris has been leaning into themed spring weekends as a way to give each visit a different feel — earlier dates used a Princesses & Pirates theme, and the final weekend is tied to Mother’s Day. That’s a small detail, but it helps explain why the event is being marketed as repeatable, not one-and-done. ### Where is Maris Farms? The farm is in Buckley, Washington, even though some community listings around the area can make the location sound broader or more regional. The official site places Baby Animals & Blooms at Maris Farms in Buckley and lists the address on Sumner Buckley Highway. For families coming from Seattle or Tacoma, Maris frames it as an easy day trip. ### Why does this feel bigger than a local calendar blurb? Because Maris has clearly built this into one leg of a year-round events business. The homepage pitches spring, summer, and fall programming, with Baby Animals & Blooms sitting alongside bigger seasonal attractions later in the year. Basically, the spring event is no longer a side offering before fall corn-maze season — it’s part of the farm’s core identity now. ### Is it mostly for little kids? Mostly, yes — but not only. The baby animals and themed weekends are squarely aimed at families with children, while the tulip fields, photo ops, market vendors, and food broaden the appeal to adults tagging along or coming mainly for the spring outing. That mix is probably the whole strategy: one ticket has to satisfy the kid who wants piglets and the adult who wants a decent flower photo. ### Bottom line If you’re thinking about Maris Farms as a quick tulip stop, that undersells it. Baby Animals & Blooms is really a short-run spring festival with flowers as the hook and a full farm day as the product. For the first weekend of May 2026, that’s the real story.