If you associate tulips with the Netherlands, you might be surprised to learn that in the springtime, there’s a farm about an hour of Charlotte with a big field of tulips. You can go during their opening hours and cut your own tulips.
Howard Family Farm is at 250 Crater Road in Harmony, 57 miles straight up I-77 from Charlotte. They grow flowers, strawberries, pumpkins, vegetables and more.
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This spring, 2025, will be their seventh year of growing tulips. They typically plant approximately 70,000 tulips.
Cut Your Own Tulips
Opening date is set for Wednesday, March 19, 2025, but you should check on Howard Family Farm’s social media before heading out, since weather can affect the date. PLEASE check their social media, or even give them a call at (704) 539-4994.
Admission is $8 for person, and that includes three tulips. Each additional stem is $1.25, or $2 if you dig up the bulb.
Hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The weekend of April 5 and 6, 2025, will be the final weekend of the year for the tulips.
Bring shovels, buckets and scissors.
Make sure to follow Howard Family Farm’s Facebook page and Instagram account.
Also, a second farm in the area (a little farther away) offers U-cut tulips too, in the same time period. Check out Dewberry Farm in Kernersville.
Professional Photography at Howard Family Farm
In addition, professional photographers are welcome to do sessions. Please contact the farm for rates.
More at Howard Family Farm
Tulips are Howard Family Farm’s first crop of the calendar year, followed by strawberries, summer flowers, vegetables, sunflowers and pumpkins, with U-pick available for most.
In addition, you can buy already harvested produce on the farm from May to October.
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