Farms Near Elk River, MN

Elk River

Otsego

Otsego

Otsego's farmers market runs Tuesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. through late August, set up in the Coborn's grocery store parking lot rather than a dedicated market square. It's a straightforward weekly stop for this fast-growing Wright County suburb northwest of the Twin Cities. The city itself organizes it — questions go through Otsego City Hall rather than a separate market board.

Elk River

Beck's Elk River Greenhouse and Vegetable Farm has grown produce on 100 acres about 4.5 miles west of Elk River since 1959, now into a fourth generation. The greenhouse sells hanging baskets, patio pots, bedding plants, vegetable starts, and seeds, while the farm offers homegrown sweet corn, tomatoes, canning vegetables, and pick-your-own or pre-picked strawberries in season. It's open daily through the growing season.

Elk River

A family garden center, greenhouse and produce market on Adams Street in Elk River, running since 1980. The market sells annuals, hanging baskets, fresh produce, sweet corn and pumpkins, plus garden decor and locally made goods. Berry picking is offered in season. The family also hosts weddings on the property through a separate venue business. Call (763) 427-6023 or see riversidefarmsmn.com.

Elk River

Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m. in June and July, shortening to 3-6 p.m. in September, at the corner of County Road 5 and Nowthen Blvd near Elk River. Vendors sell vegetables, fruit, honey, beef, artisan bread, jams, soaps, and natural dog treats, with live music most weeks. The market carries a 4.7-star rating across 36 reviews.

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Nowthen

June-bearing strawberries are the main crop, ready mid-June for two to three weeks, sold U-pick at $3.85 a pound or pre-picked by the quart and flat. The family farm also sells rhubarb, sweet corn, farm eggs, maple syrup, and homemade jams, and brings berries to the Maple Grove Farmers Market. Buckets and take-home flats are provided in the patch near Nowthen.

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].

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.

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.

Anoka

Berry Hill Farm has picked strawberries and raspberries outside Anoka since 1991, across 100 acres. Strawberries typically ripen mid-June and raspberries around the Fourth of July, running $3.90 a pound for u-pick, with pumpkin picking and wagon rides added each fall. Hours shift with the harvest, so the farm runs a berry hotline, 763-600-4870, for daily updates.

This Saturday market runs at Goose Lake Farm and Winery in Nowthen, 10am to 4pm from May through October. Everything sold is grown or made in Minnesota, from fresh produce and specialty foods to original artwork and estate wines. Shoppers can tour the vineyard, watch craft demos, taste wine, and visit the farm animals while they browse. The site sits on 213th Avenue NW, northwest of Elk River.

Dayton

Dehn's runs a 20-acre pick-your-own pumpkin patch in Dayton alongside a 15-acre corn maze, pumpkin cannons, and an 80-by-120-foot corn pit. Weekend hayrides carry visitors out to the field, and October Friday and Saturday nights add a flashlight corn maze. The marketplace and patch stay free to enter; a per-person fee covers the attractions. The season runs late September through Halloween. Reach them at (763) 742-3550.

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.

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Ramsey

Run by New Life Church at the corner of 167th and Hwy 47 in Ramsey, this Saturday market (9 a.m. to 1 p.m., May 20 to September 9) donates 10% of proceeds to the New Life Food Shelf. It's a SNAP-approved retailer built around a stated mission to link the church and the surrounding community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Big Lake

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.

Saint Francis

Manahan Stables offers private, year-round horseback riding and driving lessons near Saint Francis, from first-time beginners through advanced competitors. A heated indoor arena keeps lessons going through Minnesota winters, and the barn provides lesson horses matched to each rider's level, with students starting at age six. It draws riders from Andover, Anoka, Ham Lake, Zimmerman, and Coon Rapids. Ray Manahan and Kris Brutoco run the program.

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Anoka

Known locally as the Farmers Market on the Rum, this market sets up along 2nd Avenue next to Anoka City Hall and Riverfront Memorial Park on Wednesdays, 3 to 7 PM, June through September. Vendors bring everything from fresh produce to cottage foods and farmstead products, with the Rum River as a backdrop.

St. Francis

Roselawn Stables has run summer youth horse camps beside the Rum River in Saint Francis since 1989, making it one of the Twin Cities' longest continuously operating horse camps. The stable offers horsemanship day camps, boarding, and overnight horse camping, plus horse-drawn hayrides and winter sleigh rides. It sits on Rum River Boulevard northwest of the Twin Cities.

Saint Francis

Roselawn Heritage Farms has worked land in northern Anoka County for more than a century, with the current farm market and agritourism operation dating to 1989. Sitting about a mile and a half north of Saint Francis High School, the farm sells locally grown food direct from the property and describes its mission as reconnecting visitors to the land they eat from.

Champlin

Champlin Farmers' Market runs Tuesdays, 2 to 6 p.m., June through September, in the Ice Forum parking lot at 12165 Ensign Ave N. Vendors sell fresh produce, homemade treats, organic goods, and crafts, and take cash, checks, and cards — EBT works too, though it's handled vendor by vendor. Call (763) 762-7101 for current details.

Anoka

Andover

Andover

Ed Fields and Sons is a nursery and garden center on Round Lake Boulevard in Andover, in Anoka County north of the Twin Cities. Its website carries current plant and seasonal details; a search didn't surface a public email or set hours. Operations like this run their main season from spring planting through fall.

Champlin

Andover

Andover

This Andover farmers market sets up at Grace Lutheran Church, 13655 Round Lake Boulevard NW, part of the Saint Paul Farmers' Market network that's operated in the metro since 1854. Vendors sell fresh fruit and vegetables, cheese, baked goods, cut flowers, bedding plants, and hanging baskets.

The Honey Hut in Maple Grove sells pure local raw Minnesota honey, creamed honey, and Grade A Minnesota maple syrup, with fulfillment by shipping, farm pickup, or farmers market booth pickup.

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.

Brooklyn Park

The Twin Cities Harvest Festival and Maze runs on a Brooklyn Park farm and is known for one of Minnesota's largest corn mazes, near 20 acres. October weekends bring a corn pit, straw bale maze, petting zoo, inflatables, a giant slide, live music, and a car show, with all-inclusive gate admission. The corn maze paused during recent construction while other activities continued, so check ahead.

Maple Grove

Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m., May through mid-October, at the Maple Grove Community Center on Weaver Lake Rd. Voted best outdoor farmers market in 2025, it mixes local produce, flowers, prepared foods, meats, and cheeses with entertainment and a free kids' Power of Produce club running May through October.

Maple Grove

Same Weaver Lake Rd address as the summer market at the Maple Grove Community Center, which moves partly indoors as the season turns. Vendors continue offering local produce, flowers, and handmade goods; check the market's own site or Facebook for current winter dates, since indoor scheduling shifts year to year.

Walker Farms operates as a registered Minnesota LLC agricultural business. No product line, city, or public listing turned up online for this operation, so treat it as a name-only entry until the farm confirms what it grows or raises.

Osseo

Osseo's farmers market sets up at Boerboom Veterans Park just off Central Avenue, in this small Hennepin County city on the Twin Cities' northwest edge. Like most Minnesota outdoor markets, the season runs roughly June through September with vendors selling directly from the park grounds.

St. Francis

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.

Coon Rapids

Billed as Anoka County's oldest and longest-running farmers market, this one sets up in the Coon Rapids Ice Center parking lot on Wednesdays, 3 to 6 PM, June through early October. Regulars sell fresh vegetables, berries, honey, jams, and flowers, with a rotating cast of crafters, artists, and cottage bakers each week. Details at anokacountygrowersassociation.com.

Coon Rapids

Coon Rapids Farmers Market sets up in the Ice Center parking lot every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m., June 17 through October 7 (closed July 1). The Anoka County Growers Association runs it, with vendors selling strawberries, green beans, tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash, and other seasonal produce alongside honey, jams, and bread.

Princeton

Formed in 1987, the Princeton-Zimmerman Farmers Market Association has run a Saturday market in downtown Princeton for close to 40 years. The summer market sets up at Princeton Mall, 8:30 a.m. to noon, May through October, with every vendor required to sell something grown or made on their own farm — no resellers. A separate Zimmerman location runs on its own schedule at 12950 Fremont Ave.

Princeton

The same association that runs Princeton's summer market keeps a smaller version going through winter: the second Saturday of each month, November through April, 9 a.m. to noon, at the Princeton Mall location on Rum River Drive. The rule holds year-round — every vendor sells only what they grow or make on their own farm, so the lineup shrinks with the season instead of bringing in outside resellers.

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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.

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.

Buffalo

Princeton

Phillips Farmstead is a family farm, run by us, Emily and Christopher Phillips! Both trained artists and makers, life after art school carried us to Los Angeles where we both used our creative minds and hands on skills to work with an architecture firm. While the sunshine and ocean breeze was alluring, we couldn't ignore the fact that "city-life" was just not for us. Christopher's childhood summers spent on the family farm had never left his mind. So when big life changes left us wondering what

Brooklyn Park

Brooklyn Park Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays, 1 to 6 p.m., seasonally at 5600 85th Ave N. Vendors sell produce they grew themselves alongside honey, bread, and flowers — the city requires vendor-grown or vendor-made goods only, no resale. Call (763) 493-8333 or check brooklynpark.org/farmersmarket for the current schedule.

Princeton

J Q Fruit Farm is listed on 33rd Street near Princeton, in Mille Lacs County north of the Twin Cities. The name points to fruit, likely orchard or berry crops common to central Minnesota, but no website or current details turned up online. Confirm what's in season directly with the farm.

Princeton

JQ Fruit Farm and Orchard grows pick-your-own blueberries on six acres of roughly 10,000 plants raised herbicide- and pesticide-free, plus u-pick apples with a half-peck minimum and raspberries. It sits on 33rd Street outside Princeton in Mille Lacs County, north of the Twin Cities. Berry picking runs midsummer and apples in early fall, and the farm makes its own products from the harvest.

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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.

Becker

The Snake River Farm, established 1970 in Becker on Sherburne County's Snake River, pasture-raises grass-fed bison, beef, lamb, and hogs across native prairie, oak savanna, and wooded lowlands — supplying over 500 Minnesota families by the quarter and half, and even the local schools with grass-fed ground beef. The farm pasture-harvests to minimize stress, trains adopted BLM mustangs, taps maple syrup, and welcomes educational tours by appointment, complete with a one-room schoolhouse and farm museum.