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Flower Fest offers plenty of activities at Grandpa Tiny's Heritage Farm

  Under the direction of Farmer Wendy Winkel, the Frankenmuth Flower Festival has grown and bloomed at Grandpa Tiny’s Heritage Farm for the past seven years.

  This year’s Flower Festival is set for Friday through Sunday, August 1-3, at the Heritage Farm 7775 Weiss Street, just south of Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland and M-83. Hours of operation are 10am until 7pm all three days.

  The timing seems to be perfect for the 25-plus acres of sunflowers to bloom during this window of time. Sunflowers bloom only 3-12 days and Winkel expects approximately 375,000 to bring bright yellow sauces of color to the field just south of the Bavarian Blue Barn.

  Not only will the City of Frankenmuth be bursting with floral intensity, but the Flower Fest will also highlight a number of new and back-by-popular demand lineup of events, including U-Pick, two Dinners in the Sunflowers, yoga, craft vendors, the 5K Sunflower Fun Color Run, live music, barns and animals, the Hart One-Room School and more.

  The U-Pick Sunflowers is a popular option, with persons allowed to harvest one sunflower from the designated field. A new event is the bulk sunflower bucket, with the bulk bucket meant to be filled with vibrant sunflowers. A pro tip is to cut the flowers that have not bloomed yet, as they will open up when placed in water back at the person’s dwelling.

  The Dinner in the Sunflowers has been a sold-out portion of the festival in recent years. As in the past, there are two timeframes: 5pm and 7pm.....

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