Farms Near Delano, MN

Delano

Apple Tree-O is an orchard listing in Delano, in the same Wright County apple country as several larger u-pick operations nearby. No website, phone, or social page turned up in research — worth a call to confirm before visiting.

Delano

Delano Farmers' Market has run since 2002, meeting Wednesdays, 2 to 6 p.m., May through October, in the Flippin' Bills lot at the corner of Highway 12 and County Line Road. Vendors sell baked pies, fresh bread, honey, maple syrup, jams, farm eggs, salsa, perennials, cut flowers, and farm-raised beef and chicken, timed for the after-work commute crowd. Call 763-238-2702 for current details.

Delano

Apple Jack Orchards has drawn Twin Cities families to the banks of the Crow River in Delano for more than 30 years, across 90 acres of apples, u-pick raspberries, pumpkins, and squash. A 100-year-old barn houses the Olde Barn Gift Shop and bakery, selling jams, sauces, and fresh baked goods alongside wagon rides and fall entertainment.

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Rockford

Rockford's market runs on Main Street in this small Wright County town on the Crow River, west of the Twin Cities. No independent listing confirms current hours or vendors.

Delano

Brian Fredericksen founded Ames Farm in 1994 and now tends roughly 450 hives across 20 bee yards in central Minnesota. The honey is raw, unheated, and single-source — separate batches of basswood, buckwheat, and wildflower rather than one blended jar — plus honeycomb, creamed honey, and beeswax candles. Ames Farm's basswood honey has won multiple blue ribbons at the Minnesota State Fair.

Maple Plain

Homestead Orchard, now operating as Moondance Orchard, is the oldest and largest apple orchard in Hennepin County, on County Road 92 north of Maple Plain. The small, family-run place opens in August for pick-your-own and pre-picked apples and presses its own cider. Older directory listings still carry the Homestead name, but the current Facebook page runs under Moondance. Call (763) 479-3186 to check picking before visiting.

More than 50 fall attractions spread across this orchard west of the Twin Cities, with free admission and parking. Pick from over 20 apple varieties, pre-picked or u-pick, plus pick-your-own pumpkins starting in mid-September. The petting farm holds goats, pigs, cattle, peacocks and turkeys, and there are wagon rides, a corn maze, a trackless train, jump pillows and corn pits. A $25 wristband covers the rides, or pay per activity. Open Thursday through Sunday. Email [email protected].

Minnetrista

An apple orchard on rolling land in Minnetrista, started by Lowell and Phyllis Schaper in the mid-1970s and grown to roughly 12 acres of trees on a 40-acre property. Fall weekends bring school tours, a general store, and stands selling brats, donuts and cider pressed from the orchard's own apples for sister label Painter Creek Winery. The operation has since rebranded as Everly Farms, adding a restaurant and tasting room. Phone (763) 325-4024.

Running since 1977, this open-air market meets Fridays 3:30 to 6:30pm from June through October on Lewis Avenue in Watertown. Every item is grown, raised, or handmade by the vendor within 60 miles of town. Adult vendor space costs $25 for the season, with a lower rate for sellers under 18. Details are at watertownfarmandcraft.com.

Buffalo

Delights is a seasonal market set inside a converted barn a few miles from downtown Buffalo. The owners open for three or four weekends each spring and fall, filling the open barn space with handcrafted goods, vintage furniture, home decor, and food. Pumpkins join the mix in autumn. It reads more as a barn-boutique event than a working produce farm.

Independence

Jim's Produce sells fresh vegetables from a stand in Independence, in the western Hennepin County farm country, and is best known locally for sweet corn. Tomatoes, squash, and other summer crops fill out the stand as they ripen. On-farm pickup runs through the growing season. A roadside produce operation, not an agritourism destination.

Watertown

LuceLine Orchard on Rose Avenue in Watertown grows about 10,000 apple trees, 10 acres of pumpkins, and 4,500 grapevines. The family started in 2004 with 300 apple trees. Varieties include Honeycrisp, Zestar, SweeTango, Sweet 16, and Fireside, harvested September into mid-October. Weekends bring full service: hayrides, a corn maze, mini donuts, a petting zoo, and a beer garden pouring the orchard's own cider, wine, and beer.

Greenfield

Knapton's grows five acres of summer red and yellow raspberries, an acre of fall raspberries, pick-your-own apples, and a large pumpkin patch at the corner of Highway 55 and Lake Sarah Heights Drive in Greenfield. The farm also raises cherries, pears, sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and winter squash. It runs from late June through November, about 20 miles west of Minneapolis in western Hennepin County.

TC Farm operates out of Montrose, Minnesota. No website, listing, or social page turned up to confirm what the farm grows or sells.

Watertown

Dimler Pumpkin Patch lets you cut your own pumpkin straight off the vine at the corner of State Highway 7 and Carver County Road 10 near Watertown. Pick-your-own runs about $4 a pumpkin, or three for $11, any size or shape; pre-picked pumpkins sell by the pound. The stand also carries gourds, cornstalks, and mini-pumpkins. There are no fixed hours, so plan on daylight, roughly sunup to sundown.

An 'udderly unique' market with an eco and education bent, held Thursdays 3 to 7pm in July and August off Highway 12 and Main Street in Maple Plain. Vendors sell produce, flowers, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, spices, and handmade wares. A cow mascot and the Calves' Corner kids' art table make it a family stop, with music and giveaways each week.

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Buffalo

A meat farm outside Buffalo in Wright County, west of the Twin Cities. The name points to Angus cattle, the black-hided beef breed common across central Minnesota, though little about the operation is published online. Direct-from-farm beef sales are typical for a farm of this type in the area.

Buffalo

Buffalo Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon, May through October, pulling shoppers from Maple Lake, Monticello, St. Michael, Hanover, Rockford, and Delano as well as Buffalo itself. Vendors sell fresh produce, meat, bread, plants, soap, and barbecue sauce. Find the current lot location and vendor list at buffalofarmersmarket.com.

Buffalo

Buffalo's winter market moves indoors to the Community Center on Central Ave, running select Saturdays from November through March, 8 a.m. to noon. It's a smaller lineup than summer — mostly meat, baked goods, jams, and eggs — but it keeps regional growers connected to buyers through the months nothing's in the ground. Check buffalofarmersmarket.com for exact dates.

Mound

Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., late May through mid-October, on Shoreline Dr in Mound. Locally grown produce shares table space with beef, chicken, eggs, maple syrup, jellies, salsas, honey, mushrooms, and handmade soaps and lotions, with live music most weekends.

A community market at 2450 Wilshire Boulevard in Mound, serving the Westonka area on the west side of Lake Minnetonka. Local vendors sell produce and homemade goods through the growing season, with cash and card accepted. The Westonka Food Shelf has also run free farmers markets in the same community.

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Saint Michael

Make memories with your loved ones by spending a day at D Round Barn Berries. We offer a great place where you and your company will have a great time sightseeing and picking farm products such as Asparagus( Best in the state :) ) Strawberries, Honeyberries (coming soon), Sour Cherries(Coming soon), Corn Maze, Pumpkin Patch.

Spring Park

The Artimer Market — artisan plus farmer — sets up at Back Channel Brewing on Lake Minnetonka the last Wednesday of each month, May through September, 5 to 8 p.m. More than 20 local vendors sell food, art, jewelry, crafts, and clothing while the taproom pours its own lagers and imperial stouts and a band plays outside. It's less a produce stand and more a lakeside artisan fair with beer.

Waconia

Waconia Farmers' Market sets up in the Waconia Square parking lot on First Street every Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., running from early June into mid-October. Now in its 23rd year, it has grown from a small grassroots gathering into a city-backed weekly event mixing fresh produce, eggs, jam, and baked goods with flea-market and craft vendors. Organizers have been actively recruiting more producers of berries, honey, syrup, and tallow to round out the food offerings.

Waconia

Deardorff Orchards spreads across 120 acres near Lake Waconia, with 12 apple varieties on more than 3,000 pick-your-own trees and five cold-climate wine grapes on some 3,100 vines. The 125-year-old barn houses Parley Lake Winery and its tasting room, pouring wines made from the estate grapes. Apple season runs late August into early November, with hayrides and a pumpkin patch, plus a shop selling mums, local honey, jams, cider, and pumpkins.

Buffalo

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Buffalo

Woods' Edge Apples is a family orchard three miles north of Buffalo on Highway 25, growing pick-your-own and pre-picked apples in varieties like First Kiss, SweeTango, Honeycrisp, Zestar, Snow Sweet, and Haralson. It also offers u-pick raspberries, pumpkins, and squash, and manages the orchard with integrated pest management. A gift shop carries work from local artisans, and the farm runs hayrides and keeps friendly animals. Apple picking continues into late October.

Medina

Scherer's is a pick-your-own pumpkin patch in Medina, on the western edge of the Twin Cities metro in Hennepin County. Patches like this open in late September and October for families choosing pumpkins straight from the field. No website or hours were verifiable online, so check locally for the current fall season before heading out.

Waverly

Long Lake

Two Pony Gardens is a small dahlia and heirloom tomato operation in Long Lake, west of the Twin Cities. In summer they open the rows for pick-your-own dahlias and tomatoes and sell cut flowers at peak bloom. Come spring, they offer pre-started dahlia tubers and heirloom tomato seedlings for home gardeners. A deliberately small two-crop farm.

Monticello

Fresh Acres Farm runs a fall festival on 72nd Street NE in Monticello, in Wright County northwest of the Twin Cities. The festival brings a corn maze, pumpkin patch, petting zoo, inflatables, a combine slide, and a corn cannon, with admission around $13. The farm grows non-GMO produce, opens a sunflower field in August, and raises pasture-raised animals. The corn maze reopens in mid-September.

Monticello

Fresh Acres runs a fall festival on 72nd Street NE in Monticello, open Fridays through Sundays from early September. Two farmers left corporate careers to start the place in 2016 and added the first corn maze in 2018. The larger maze covers about 2.3 miles of paths, and a smaller one suits kids under 8. Admission also covers the pumpkin patch, petting zoo, inflatables, a corn pit, and weekend wagon rides.

Rogers

Dream Acres is a self-serve, pick-your-own pumpkin patch on a family farm in Rogers, open every day in October during daylight hours. Pumpkins run $5 each, paid by cash, Venmo, or PayPal. The family has run it since 2006 and keeps it simple: no corn maze, no petting zoo, no add-on attractions, just rows of pumpkins to walk and pick. It sits on Tucker Road.

Victoria

Field Good Garden and Market operates out of 8099 Bavaria Road in Victoria as a garden center and market combined, selling seasonal produce alongside bedding plants, flowers, and other garden essentials. It runs spring through fall, following Minnesota's growing season rather than a fixed festival calendar. Call ahead if you're after a specific item — inventory shifts with what's actually ready to sell.

Albertville

The Albertville Lions Club runs this Thursday market, 3 to 7 PM, June through the end of September, in Central Park on Main Avenue NE. Vendors sell locally grown produce and handcrafted goods. Vendors or shoppers with questions can call (763) 443-5621 or email [email protected].

Excelsior

Join us at the Excelsior Farmers Market and immerse yourself in a vibrant variety of locally sourced produce, artisanal goods, delicious prepared food and drinks, and a community that buzzes with excitement & entertainment! Open Thursdays 2-6pm. We Accept SNAP/EBT and Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP).

Excelsior

The Lake Minnetonka Excelsior Farmers Market runs Thursday afternoons through summer in the east parking lot of Excelsior Elementary at 441 Oak Street. Vendors sell local produce alongside artisan goods, and the market accepts SNAP/EBT and Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits for shoppers who qualify. It's a straightforward neighborhood market — no festival trappings, just growers and a rotating cast of makers.

Monticello

Monticello

The Monticello Community Center on Walnut St hosts an indoor winter market starting in November, with vendors selling fresh produce, canned goods, baked goods, maple syrup, honey, plants, meat, and cheese. It's a smaller-scale continuation of the Thursday summer market held at the library, mid-May through September.

Howard Lake

Howard Lake Area Farmers Market runs Thursday afternoons, 3 to 6 p.m., June through August, at Central Park just off Highway 12. The market marked its 10th season in 2025, drawing regional farms and makers to this small Wright County town. Produce, baked goods, and handmade goods make up most vendor tables, with a separate winter version taking over once the outdoor season ends.

Winsted

Winsted Farmers Market runs Wednesday afternoons, 3 to 6 p.m., late June through September, along Winsted Avenue in this McLeod County town between Litchfield and Waconia. It's a compact market serving a town of roughly 2,400 people.

Norwood Young America

This Carver County market recently renamed itself from Bongards Farmers Market to 212 Farmers Market NYA, though longtime shoppers still know it by the old name. It runs Wednesday afternoons, June through September, with area growers and makers selling direct in Norwood Young America.

Howard Lake

The winter version of Howard Lake Area Farmers Market moves indoors to the South Shore Event Center, running Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., October through April. It picks up where the Thursday summer market at Central Park leaves off, giving vendors a cold-weather outlet for preserves, baked goods, and crafts once the growing season ends.

Howard Lake

Peterson Farms Honey is a fourth-generation migratory beekeeping operation with its honey house in Howard Lake. The family moves its hives between Minnesota's summer fields and Texas over winter, selling bulk raw honey to other beekeepers and four-frame nucs for pickup in spring. Health issues have paused new nuc orders for spring 2026, with plans to reopen for spring 2027.

Rogers

Rogers' market runs Tuesday afternoons, 3 to 6:30 p.m., from July into September, organized through the city rather than an independent nonprofit. It sets up in this fast-growing Hennepin County exurb northwest of the Twin Cities. Questions and vendor inquiries go through Rogers City Hall on South Diamond Lake Road rather than a separate market board or chamber.

Monticello

Brad and Bess Munsterteiger have run this Wright County farm since 2000, opening for pick-your-own strawberries in June and blueberries in July. Picking containers and carry-home flats are provided. Garlic follows in August, and cut-your-own flowers run from late June into fall. The couple keeps honeybees too, selling honey, lip balm, lotion bars, and beeswax wraps year-round. Daily updates on what's ripe post to their site and phone line.

Elk River

Goracke Trees is a small tree farm listed on County Road 14 near Elk River, in Sherburne County northwest of the Twin Cities. Very little about it is published online, so hours and current stock are best confirmed with the farm directly.

Wayzata

Wayzata Farmers' Market runs Thursday afternoons through the growing season on Lake Street, with its own vendor directory rather than a generic listing-service page. The market publishes a weekly newsletter covering vendor specials and keeps a seasonal photo gallery and recipe page built around whatever produce is in. It's a longstanding fixture of this Lake Minnetonka town's summer calendar, and it recruits new food vendors through an application process on its site.

Big Lake

A Christmas tree grower operating near Big Lake since 1979, Tallakson's also sells at the seasonal Big Lake Farmers' Market from June through October alongside produce, plant and craft vendors. Business records list it under wholesale Christmas trees, and directory addresses conflict between Big Lake and nearby communities. Details online are thin beyond the tree business and the farmers-market presence.

Howard Lake

Big Lake

Big Lake

This indoor market runs the third Saturday of every month, November through April, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Big Lake City Hall, 160 Lake St N. Everything sold is homemade or homegrown — seasonal produce, meat, eggs, and baked goods — with free parking, live music, and a Market Bucks matching program for SNAP/EBT shoppers. The November date usually includes free photos with Santa.

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Chanhassen

Lakewinds Food Co-op is a community-owned, local grocery store with the highest standards around. We have three stores, 300+ employees, and a passion for local, sustainably grown food. Our mission is to promote sustainable agriculture, support local makers, sustain our communities, and protect our planet. There’s no membership required to shop — all are welcome, and we’d love to meet you!

Chanhassen

Chanhassen Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through September, at City Center Park. More than 30 vendors rotate through the season, and the market runs a youth program that hands kids ages 3 to 18 weekly funds to spend on fresh produce. SNAP/EBT accepted. Reach the market at [email protected].