GTA’s largest tulip festival opening on Ontario farm next week [Video]

The party was delayed a week or so but spring officially arrives at Pingles Farm Market next Thursday with a vibrant and colourful celebration of the largest tulip festival in the GTA, with visitors invited to walk, take a wagon ride or even tiptoe through more than half a million tulip blooms.

The McKay family (from Willowtree Farm in Port Perry) took over the farm market on Taunton Road, east of Oshawa, in 2020 from Colleen and Walter Pingle, who operated the popular tourist farm for 37 years.

The new owners have kept the traditions alive, such as the pick-your-own pumpkins and apples and giant corn maze events during the harvest festival in the fall and the and have also added new ones, such as the tulip festival, with 2025 being its debut.

“We originally anticipated opening April 26 but the unseasonably cold spring has slowed things down,” Pingles said …