Sweet Spring at Greendale Acres

Sweet Spring is a family-friendly flower festival with baby animals, flower gardens, and fun activities for children at Greendale Acres Farm in Chilliwack.

In 2025 Sweet Spring runs from March 27th until May 11th. Those dates include both the Easter Long Weekend and the Mother’s Day Weekend.

Special events at the farm during the Sweet Spring Flower Festival season include the following:

Saturday, April 5th – 102th Annual Plowing Match
April 12th, 13th, 18th, 19th & 20th – Easter Activities
Friday, April 25th – Grandparents Day
Saturday, April 26th – Princess Day
Saturday, May 10th – Spring Wellness
Saturday & Sunday, May 10th & 11th – Tulip Dig
Sunday, May 11th – Mother’s Day (Mothers are free)

For tickets and full details about events, see the Greendale Acres website.

This article includes the following information about Sweet Spring:

Where and When | Special Events Schedule | Admission | Other Information

Sweet Spring in Early April 2025 (Photos by Charlotte Louise)

Sweet Spring at Greendale Acres

Greendale Acres is a farm in the Fraser Valley. It’s located at 41905 Yale Road West in Chilliwack. The farm hosts various events throughout the year. For example, there’s the Chilliwack Plowing Match in early April, Easter-themed celebrations on the Easter Long Weekend, and also Sweet Spring from April to May, and the Chilliwack Corn Maze from August until October.

The Sweet Spring Flower Festival is a wonderful event for all ages. There are colourful flower beds with more than 50,000 tulips and other flowers to check out. What’s more, the place is full of fun activities for children.

While the flower gardens at the Sweet Spring event aren’t as big as the fields of tulips at other festivals in the Fraser Valley, the flowers at Greendale Acres are planted in unique patterns. There are also many more things to do at the farm, especially for kids. In fact, if you have young children or grandchildren, Sweet Spring is arguably the best flower festival in BC. Other flower festivals might have millions more flowers. Sweet Spring, however, because of all the fun play structures and games, will probably be your children’s favourite!

During Sweet Spring visitors get to interact with farm animals, including a baby lamb named Lily. There’s also a hay bale maze and a big jumping pillow, along with a pedal cart track and various play structures for children.

(There are farm animals on-site for people to see for free every day all day. Lily, however, is a special little lamb. You can meet and greet with her one-on-one, but only on weekends!)

For tickets and full details about Sweet Spring, see the Greendale Acres website.

Where and When is Sweet Spring

The Sweet Spring Flower Festival takes place at Greendale Acres Farm at 41905 Yale Road West in Chilliwack. It’s near the Chilliwack Golf Course, not far from the Botanica Tulip Festival. To get to Greendale Acres via the Trans-Canada Highway, take Exit #109 onto Yale Road.

This season’s Sweet Spring opens on Thursday, March 27th. Its last day of the season is Sunday, May 11th. Between those dates the farm is open from Thursday to Sunday each week.

Hours of operation for Sweet Spring this year are the following:

Thursdays and Fridays – from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Saturdays and Sundays – from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Sweet Spring also has special hours on Friday, April 25th (which is a school Pro-D Day). On that date the farm is open from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. There is also a Grandparents Day event that day too. See below for more details about this event and a couple of other ones.

(Note: Exact dates and times were subject to change depending on the weather and growing season conditions.)

Special Events Schedule

On select dates of Sweet Spring last year there are some special events to enjoy. The schedule of event days for 2025 is listed below.

Friday, April 25th, is a professional development day for students in local schools and also Grandparents Day at Greendale Acres. Grandparents of all ages get free admission at the farm that day.

Then, on Saturday, April 26th, it’s Princess Day where between 10:30 am and 12:00 pm, Elsa from Frozen was on-site in costume. Then, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, there is also Spider-Gwen roaming around. Both princesses sing songs and share stories. They are also available for photo opportunities with guests.

Another special event during Sweet Spring in 2025 is Spring Wellness. It happens on the Saturday, May 10th, and features a public exercise class called THE SHIFT. The event happens from 10:00 am to noon and afterwards participants are welcome to stay at and enjoy the farm for the afternoon.

Also on the Mother’s Day Weekend of May 10th and 11th the farm has a couple of final special events. The Saturday is the Tulip Dig where you can dig up a few tulip bulbs to take home with you for your own garden (for flowers for next year). On the Sunday, on Mother’s Day, there’s a free pancake breakfast, moms get free admission, and you can dig up more tulips to keep!

For full details about Sweet Spring, see the Greendale Acres website.

Admission Details

Tickets for Sweet Spring are available online. They cost $15 on weekends and $12 on weekdays for people between the ages of 3 and 74 years old. Toddlers under the age of 3 and seniors ages 75 and above get in for free. Admission includes access to all activities at the farm, including those only available on days with special events.

Once purchased, tickets are non-refundable. If needed, however, you can exchange them for tickets for another date.

For up-to-date ticket pricing to Sweet Spring and other events at the farm, click Greendale Acres Event Tickets.