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00:00This is one of the most beautiful rock and road trips we've ever done, Don.
00:04It really is.
00:05Rock and road trips out at DeBucks Family Farm in Belleville.
00:09Why are we here, Joel?
00:10We're here for the Tulip Festival.
00:12Look at these millions of beautiful tulips all around us.
00:15And the weather is beautiful as well.
00:17This is really amazing.
00:18DeBucks has been doing their Tulip Festival since, I believe, 2009.
00:21They've added to the farm as they've gone.
00:24So they started out with their Fall Festival, which is ginormous.
00:27Yeah.
00:28And then now they do Tulip Festival, they do Lavender Festival, and they do sunflowers.
00:34Oh, my gosh.
00:35Yeah.
00:35Sunflowers look amazing.
00:38Especially since they have some height.
00:40So I can be able to stand up.
00:42And it's just right over here in Belleville, not too far from the metro area.
00:46It's not.
00:47So if you're like, man, I really want to go see a ton of tulips, but I don't want to drive to Holland, you don't have to.
00:54And you don't have to fly to Holland either.
00:55I haven't said that.
00:56So no passport required, folks.
00:59There are about 75 different types of tulips.
01:04The belief is that the word tulip comes from the Persians after a word for turban that they thought they looked like turbans when they were first discovered.
01:13Tulips can grow wild.
01:14Certainly, I've got some in my garden.
01:15But in speaking with Eric DeBuck, he said that they turn their tulips over about every two years.
01:21Every two years, they dig up these hundreds of thousands of tulip bulbs, rest them, and then replant them in the following spring.
01:30Just crazy.
01:31One of the things I really love about DeBucks is that it's been family-owned since its inception.
01:36Like, literally back in the 40s, Leo and Eleanor got married, and they had five kids.
01:43And then, surprise Eleanor, here's another set of twins.
01:47At that point, she was like, hey, Leo, you're going to have to replace me in the fields.
01:50Because she had five kids, and she was still working in the field.
01:52Like, people were so hardy in the 40s, like, I can't even imagine Joel.
01:56Yeah, that's a growing-your-own-farm-hand squad.
02:00And they were vegetable farmers at that point.
02:02I want to say up in Mount Clemens.
02:03So, like, you know, real deal.
02:05But they turned to sod farming instead, and sod farming has done really well for them.
02:11They have five sons.
02:12Every one of the sons opened up their own sod farms.
02:15Yes.
02:16It was a grassroots effort.
02:19The sod father.
02:21So, we are at the one in Belleville, and I love that they diversified.
02:26So, do they still sell sod?
02:27They do.
02:28But they also do these wonderful family festivals where everybody's just out.
02:32Oh, my God.
02:33The selfies.
02:33The selfies are amazing.
02:35Yep, it sure is.
02:36It's almost like this is AI-generated out here.
02:38It's so beautiful, and everybody's in such a happy spring mood and very friendly.
02:43Yes.
02:43And it's a great afternoon out here at the Bucks.
02:47Couldn't have said it any better, Joel.
02:48The Weird, The Wild, The Wonderful.
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02:55When you get back from a rockin' road trip, nothing hits the spot like a cold Faygo pop.
03:01Faygo, the one true pop.