Baby Animals and Blooms at Maris Farms

Maris Farms is doing its spring thing again — and the window is short. The Buckley farm’s 2026 Baby Animals & Blooms event is running on select weekends, with the next dates set for Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, then a final weekend on May 9 and 10. The draw is simple and very Pacific Northwest: baby goats and ducklings on one side, rows of tulips on the other, plus the regular farm-play chaos kids actuall(marisfarms.com)l season, so this is one of the few spring chances to get onto the farm. (marisfarms.com) ### What is the event, exactly? Baby Animals & Blooms is Maris Farms’ spring festival in Buckley, Washington. The farm is pitching it as a mix of baby-animal encounters, tulip fields, food, shopping, and family attractions rather than just a quick flower stop. In other words, it’s built to be a half-day outing, not a 20-minute photo errand. (marisfarms.com)ith hours listed as 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Since today is Friday, May 1, the April weekend is already gone. The next available sessions are this coming Saturday and Sunday — May 2 and May 3 — followed by the Mother’s Day weekend closeout on May 9 and May 10. (marisfarms.com) ### What (marisfarms.com) baby animal encounters with goats, lambs, piglets, and ducklings, plus 40-plus farm attractions. There’s also a Maker’s Market, on-site food and treats, and photo setups in the tulip fields, including a “wave” and ombré-style planting design. (marisfarms.ticketspice.com)(marisfarms.com)ekend. Maris has been organizing the spring run around themed weekends, with Princesses and Pirates on the opening weekend, Superheroes on the second, and Mother’s Day programming on the final weekend. That gives families a reason to pick one weekend over another instead of treating every date as interchangeable. (marisfarms.tickets([marisfarms.ticketspice.com) flower field? Not really — that’s the key distinction. Plenty of tulip outings are basically walk, pose, leave. Maris is bundling flowers with animal petting and a full farm-activity setup, so the experience is closer to a spring fair. If you’re bringing kids, that changes the math, because the tulips stop being the whole event and become one station in a bigger loop. (marisfarms.com)o much? Because the event only runs on three weekends. Miss one, and you’ve lost a third of the season. Miss the next one, and you’re down to the final May 9-10 stretch. The Courier-Herald’s community calendar highlighted exactly those remaining May dates, which is basically a reminder that this is a narrow seasonal window, not an open-ended spring attraction. (courierherald.com) So who is this really for? Families, mostly, and especially families looking for a day trip from the Seattle-Tacoma side of the region. Maris explicitly frames the event as an easy spring outing from those metro areas, and the mix of petting animals, roaming space, snacks, and tulip photos makes that pitch pretty believable. Adults who just want flowers can go too — but the place is clearly designed around kids having room to burn energy. (marisfarms.com) ### Bottom line If you want the Maris Farms spring version — not the haunted-woods, corn-maze fall version — the next real shot is May 2-3. After that, there’s just one weekend left. (marisfarms.com)