The Tessellar Tulip festival has a variety of 120 tulips at a 55 acre farm located at Silvan. Initially founded by Johanna Tesselar and Dutch travellers growing tulips, gladoli and daffodils at the field, associated with charities and donations. Tourism and popularity has increased since first established in 1954 at birth year of the photographer Matt Leane’s Father. Nearly a million tulip bulbs were grown with modern harvesting and 80 thousand bulbs created by farmers. The festival at Silvan has food and music stalls during the months September and October. An actor in a 2010 movie mentions a ‘Sourcrout Festival upstate’ as part of the reading to the script.
