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PASSING THE TORCH – The new owners of Tulip Town are not your parents’ farmers. Their entrepreneurial approach is different from the entrepreneurial approach of past generations of farm families. The five owners are related by friendship. Left to right: Randy Howard, Rachel Ward Sparwasser, Donnie Keltz, Angela Speer, and Andrew Miller of Spinach Bus Ventures. – Photo courtesy of Lindsey Bowen
A 36-year tradition concluded in late June when Tulip Town on Bradshaw Road in Greater LaConner was purchased by Spinach Bus Ventures.
Since founders Tom and Jeannette DeGoede opened Tulip Town 1983, its colorful plantings, Peace Garden, murals of tulips in the Skagit Valley and Holland, and gracious owners have attracted hundreds of thousands of fans.
Tulip Town has been on the market for two years and Tom DeGoede died June 2.
The new buyers “are all local, they know farming and I think they are going to take it up to a new level that will be a real surprise for the Valley,” Jeannette DeGoede...
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