Farms Near Hastings, MN

Hastings

Hastings

Croix Farm Orchard offers pick-your-own apples, a pumpkin patch, and a corn maze on St. Croix Trail south of Hastings, run by John and Kay Leadholm. Weekend wagon rides carry visitors out to the pumpkins, and a small barnyard of goats, rabbits, and chickens is open for petting and photos. A food truck sells fried treats and apple cider. Admission is free; picking bags and the corn maze cost extra.

Prescott

Hastings

Gary McDougall opened this apple stop near Hastings in 1987, known for apple treats plus gadgets, books, teas, and candles. Some current listings mark it closed while others still show hours, so call 651-480-4701 before visiting. The shop sits on 110th Street South.

Hastings

Hastings Farm Market runs Tuesdays and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Westview Shopping Center along the south frontage road. Vendors sell local produce, flowers, jams and jellies, herbs, honey, soap, salsa, and a rotating selection of crafts. It runs on two weekly days rather than one, giving it more standing hours than most single-day markets in the area.

Prescott

Fischer's Croix Farm Orchard sits above the scenic Lower St. Croix River near Hastings, a mile north of Highway 10. It grows a long list of apples, including University of Minnesota varieties like Honeycrisp, Zestar, Sweet Sixteen, and Keepsake, sold pick-your-own and pre-picked. Fall adds a pumpkin patch, corn maze, weekend wagon rides, and farm animals, plus a straw mountain and the Apple Express ride. Open Tuesday through Sunday, September into November. Call (651) 437-7126.

Hastings

The Johnson family planted the first apple trees here in 1980, and the farm now opens each fall from Labor Day weekend through Halloween with no admission charge. The country store sells apples, pumpkins and baked goods, while kids get a climbing area and petting zoo. Toss a coin in the whistling well and the farm matches it as a donation to Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. It sits on St. Croix Trail south of Hastings.

Cottage Grove

Run by Zywiec's Landscape and Garden Center just south of Cottage Grove, the Haunting Experience has staged Halloween scares since 1986, billed as the Twin Cities area's longest-running haunted hayride. The daytime corn maze plays it straight for families, hiding five themed items to photograph for a prize at the exit. After dark comes a swampy maze, haunted house, bonfires, a Lions Club beer tent and horror films screened in the greenhouse. More at zywiecs.com.

Hastings

Afton Apple Orchard, run by Cenco Farms, is one of the larger pick-your-own operations in the Twin Cities metro, at 14421 90th Street South near Hastings in Washington County. It opens for u-pick apples and pumpkins in fall alongside a corn maze and hayrides, and picks strawberries and raspberries earlier in summer. The orchard's website carries current picking conditions and hours.

Hastings

The Femling family has run Afton Apple Orchards in Hastings since 1989, growing apples, raspberries, strawberries, and pumpkins across 250 acres in the St. Croix Valley. Pick your own or buy fruit already harvested at peak ripeness. Fall brings a 15-acre corn maze, hayrides, and a petting farm, making it one of the larger u-pick operations in the south metro.

Prescott

Big River Ridge Farm is a regenerative farm in Prescott, Wisconsin raising 100% grass-fed beef and pasture-raised chicken — cows humanely raised on pasture, free of hormones, antibiotics, and GMOs, "the way it ought to be." The farm also builds Alumi-Coops, aluminum mobile coops that make moving a flock easy and safe.

Hastings

Ripe Radish Farm offers pesticide-free, members-only pick-your-own on 191st Street East near Hastings in Dakota County. CSA members pick berries, tree fruit, vegetables, gourmet garlic, and cut flowers across the season, from strawberries and honeyberries early to apples and grapes later, plus free-range eggs. The farm is now managed under Hope Farm.

Hastings

Hastings

Wyatt's Strawberries has run pick-your-own since 1975 at its farm on 180th Street East in Hastings, selling u-pick strawberries by the pound and pre-picked by the quart, cash or check only. Asparagus rounds out the spring lineup. The strawberry season lands mid-June to early July, and you can bring your own containers. Call ahead to check patch conditions and place pre-pick orders. The farm is in Dakota County.

Hastings

Alexis Bailly Vineyard planted Minnesota's first commercial vineyard in Hastings in 1973 and in 1978 released the first wines made entirely from Minnesota-grown grapes. Nan Bailly, daughter of the founder, now runs the winery. Visitors taste wines, walk the vines, play bocce, and picnic on the grounds, with a deli and a gift shop stocked with local food and crafts. It's about 30 miles from Minneapolis.

Hastings

River Road Honey Farm produces honey in Minnesota. No working website or listing was found to confirm apiary location or products beyond honey.

Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove United Church of Christ hosts this Thursday market, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m., June 11 through October 8, at 7008 Lamar Ave S. Vendors sell produce, baked goods, plants, honey, maple syrup, chocolate, and soap, with food trucks parked out front and free parking across the street at the Lamar ball fields. Leashed dogs are welcome. Call the church at 651-459-1501.

Welch

Rainbow Ridge Blueberry Farm grows u-pick blueberries near Welch, in the Cannon River area southeast of the Twin Cities. Picking opens in mid-to-late summer when the berries ripen, and hours track the crop, so call before heading out. A single-crop patch built around blueberry season.

Woodbury

Woodbury Resurrection Farmers' Market is held at a Bailey Road address in Woodbury, a name suggesting a church-hosted market. We couldn't independently confirm current hours, vendors, or contact details online — check with the host site directly before visiting.

Afton

Schiltgen Farms sells sweet corn from a little red barn stand at Manning Avenue S and 30th Street S in Afton, open daily 10am to 6:30pm once the season starts in mid-July. A second stand runs in Lake Elmo by the Washington County Fairgrounds. Come fall, the family opens a pumpkin patch on 15th Street South in Afton.

Rosemount

Emery Acres is a u-pick flower farm about 25 miles south of the Twin Cities, where Connie and Alicia Merriman grow more than 100 flower varieties. Visitors get a pitcher and shears and cut their own bouquet, roughly $25 with a take-home container. Self-service and full-service days both run through the season, and the farm books private events like showers and photo sessions. A bouquet subscription delivers within 15 miles.

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Woodbury

Woodbury Farmers' Market sets up at Central Park Place, the city's central gathering venue in this eastern Twin Cities suburb. We couldn't independently confirm this season's hours or vendor list online — check Woodbury's parks and recreation page before you go.

Afton

Afton Raspberry Company is a pick-your-own raspberry farm on Neal Avenue South in Afton, east of the Twin Cities near the St. Croix River. The fields open seven days a week, 8am until dark, through the summer raspberry season. It sits in the same orchard-rich pocket of Washington County as several apple farms.

River Falls

Prescott

Rosemount

The Bohn Farm, on Clayton Avenue East in Rosemount, offers strawberry picking and shows up in local guides for fall pumpkin picking too. It's also associated with Bohnland Farm & Service Center, which handles agricultural equipment and services out of the same area. No verified phone, email, or website turned up in research — call ahead before visiting.

Newport

A Sunday market at the Newport Center on Hastings Ave, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through late August. Listed with the Minnesota Farmers' Market Association, it's a small community market supporting local vendors and small growers on the east side of the Twin Cities metro.

Gosell Gardens is a 7-acre family farm and backyard nursery in Inver Grove Heights growing annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs alongside produce and eggs. The self-service farmstand at 9226 Old Concord Boulevard runs on the honor system — bring your own bags if you can — and stays open from 8 a.m. to dusk, May through October.

Lake Elmo

Cimarron Community Farm runs a one-acre organic vegetable operation inside Cimarron Park, a manufactured-home community of roughly 2,000 residents in Lake Elmo, and opens a free market on-site June through October — no purchase or donation required. It's a nonprofit built to get fresh food to neighbors who'd otherwise drive miles for it. Reach the farm at 952-607-0157 or cimarroncommunityfarm.com.

River Falls

Lake Elmo

Robert and Dorothy Ziertman bought this Lake Elmo farm in the 1950s, and the family has sold pumpkins here for more than 40 years, just south of Highway 36 on Keats Avenue. The non-commercial patch offers pumpkins from 2 to 200 pounds, several kinds of squash, gourds, mini pumpkins, and decorative corn, plus goats to feed and tractors for kids to climb.

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Hager City

Keith Tumulty keeps bees in Lake Elmo, continuing a family tradition his father started in 2008. Tumulty Bees has sold honey, creamed honey, and beeswax candles at Twin Cities farmers markets since 2012, and its honey turns up on the menu at a handful of local restaurants. Keith shows hives at the Minnesota State Fair and belongs to both the Minnesota Hobby Beekeepers Association and the Honey Bee Club of Stillwater.

Inver Grove Heights

Inver Grove Heights Farmers Market runs Sunday mornings, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October, in the Veterans Memorial Community Center parking lot on Barbara Avenue. It's operated by the St. Paul Farmers' Market as one of its satellite neighborhood locations, selling produce, cut flowers, plants, and artisan food. EBT, cash, card, and market bucks are accepted.

River Falls

Cannon Falls

Cannon River Winery handcrafts its wine on-site in a former Chevrolet dealership in downtown Cannon Falls, a building on the National Register of Historic Places. The grapes come from more than 9,000 vines across 40 acres in Minnesota's Sogn Valley. The tasting room and kitchen serves sandwiches, flatbreads, and charcuterie, and the winery hosts live music, seasonal festivals, and vineyard weddings. It opened in 2004, midway between St. Paul and Rochester.

Lake Elmo

Our goal is to grow the best fresh food for our neighbors all season long! In the 2022 season we produced over 12,000 pounds of produce on our half-acre farm! Much of this food went directly to our neighbors in Cimarron Park.

Oakdale

Oakdale

Lake Elmo

In its 12th season at Lake Elmo Elementary, this market fills Saturday mornings, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through mid-August, with locally grown produce, meat, eggs, flowers, artisan breads and pastries, jams, mushrooms, maple syrup, and honey. A youth vendor spot gives young growers and makers their own table.

South St Paul

Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m., this market sets up near the corner of 12th Avenue and Southview Boulevard, behind the Wakota Federal Credit Union in South St. Paul. Vendors sell locally grown produce, cut flowers, plants, and artisan food goods direct from the grower. Hours shift with the season, so it's worth calling ahead before making a special trip.

Cannon Falls

Artisan Plaza Farmers' Market runs Saturday mornings, 7:30 to noon, May through October, at the Artisan Plaza food hall on 4th Street South in Cannon Falls. Dave Olson opened the plaza in 2018 as a combined market and food hall, and the Saturday market continues rain or shine.

Bayport

Bayport Farmers' Market sets up at Perro Creek Park on Mondays, mid-June through mid-October, 3 to 7 p.m. (3 to 6 p.m. after Labor Day). Growers bring produce — organic options included — alongside meat, seafood, and eggs, with food trucks, live music, and kids' activities rounding out the evening. It's a small-town market built around the after-work crowd.

Cannon Falls

A cut-flower farm started in 2021 at 31796 Stanton Trail in Cannon Falls, growing seasonal blooms sold as bouquets, DIY buckets, and wholesale bunches to florists, grocers, and designers. They deliver farm-to-doorstep arrangements and take orders weekdays, 8am to 5pm. Reach them at [email protected] or (612) 308-9627; more at hillsidebloomsmn.com.

Stillwater

Farmington

Brand Farms started as a dairy farm near Farmington when German immigrants Anton and Marie Brand bought the land in 1957, and four generations later Aaron Brand farms it with his father, John. The farm sells free-range eggs year-round and runs a u-pick apple orchard, with a store carrying apples, meats, butter, jams, salsas, and pickled goods. Fall adds hayrides, u-pick pumpkins, apple cider donuts, and school tours.

This Tuesday market sets up in the HealthPartners Clinic parking lot at 1500 Curve Crest Boulevard in Stillwater, formerly the Stillwater Medical Group. It runs 11am to 3pm from late June into September and began as a partnership with the PowerUP health initiative to put fresh food near residents and clinic staff. Expect vegetables, fruit, honey, beeswax, canned goods, and a food truck.

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Stillwater

This farmers market sets up Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., summer through fall, in the parking lot of the HealthPartners Clinic on Curve Crest Boulevard in Stillwater. Regular vendors have included Slinger's Apiary, 4R Farms, Davis Farm, and Marine Maple, selling honey, maple syrup, produce, and canned goods, with a food truck typically on site. It's a clinic-hosted market, smaller than Stillwater's main downtown market.

West St Paul

Set up in the Signal Hills Shopping Center parking lot at 1225 S Robert St, this West St. Paul market is run by the Saint Paul Growers' Association, the nonprofit behind Twin Cities farmers markets since 1854. Vendors sell produce, cheese, eggs, honey, jams, and crafts, sourced within about 100 miles. It accepts EBT, cash, card, and Market Bucks, matching the payment setup at the association's other satellite locations.

St Paul

Oakdale's winter market moves indoors to the Discovery Center on Hadley Avenue, running select Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., November through March — the cold-weather counterpart to the city's Wednesday summer market at City Hall. Vendors sell locally grown produce, baked goods, canned items, honey, and floral arrangements.

Stillwater

Country Sun Farm has sold hanging baskets, bedding plants, patio pots, annuals, and vegetables on Highway 36 near Stillwater for more than 40 years. Its spring season runs from late April through mid-June, then a fall season from mid-September to Halloween adds hayrides and a corn maze on weekends. The farm sits on the south side of Highway 36 between Lake Elmo and Manning avenues.

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Stillwater

When the outdoor season ends, Stillwater's market moves indoors to the Historic Courthouse at 3rd and Pine, keeping a Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. schedule through the cold months. The vendor mix stays close to the summer market — local produce, baked goods, and handmade goods from regional makers — just under a roof instead of a parking lot.