Discover Empire, Eat Asparagus

Asparagus Party

Don’t miss the ninth annual Empire Asparagus Festival May 18-20 in the cozy village in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. This annual rite of spring, dubbed among the weirdest festivals in the world by MSN.com, brings the locals out of hibernation and precedes the tourism pilgrimage “up north” on Memorial Day weekend.

View the Asparagus Festival’s schedule of events here. Check out the Empire Chamber’s new promotional video below — narrated by famed local writer Anne-Marie Oomen — and don’t forget to submit your entry to the Asparagus Festival Poetry Contest here.

Get your asparagus stalk on!

This GlenArbor.com story is sponsored by Bay Lavender, where Cookie Thatcher prefers to think of her blends of lavender soaps as “flavors”.