Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Hastings, MN

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

River Falls

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.

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.

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.

River Falls

Hager City

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.

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.

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.

Hudson

Stillwater

The Axdahl family has run this roadside stand in the St. Croix Valley on Manning Avenue for more than three decades, known for sweet corn, green beans, tomatoes and other vegetables grown without GMOs. Spring brings annuals, hanging baskets and garden plants; the season runs from mid-April clear through Christmas. Fall adds a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, corn maze and farm animals, and winter shifts to cut Christmas trees and custom wreaths. Email [email protected].

River Falls

Stillwater

Aamodt's Apple Farm has grown apples near Stillwater since Thor and Lucille Aamodt planted the orchard in 1948, now spanning more than 50 acres and 6,000 trees. Fall weekends bring wagon rides, pony rides, a hay-bale maze, a barnyard, apples, bakery goods, pumpkins, and the farm's apple brats. The barn also holds a hard cider operation, and Saint Croix Vineyards shares the site for wine tasting and tours.

Stillwater

Blueberry Fields of Stillwater is a family-run u-pick blueberry farm about four miles northwest of Stillwater, managed by Summer Kuehn and her son alongside Haden Hausken. Picking opens whenever the berries are ready each summer, with some pre-picked berries available too. The farm has organized volunteer field-maintenance days during the off-season to keep the bushes healthy.

Farmington

Castle Rock Orchard grows more than 1,350 dwarf apple trees on a trellis system across two acres, three miles south of Farmington and Lakeville on Highway 3. Pick-your-own varieties include Zestar, SweeTango, SnowSweet, Chestnut Crab, and Honeycrisp. The farm also sells pumpkins, squash, gourds, cucumbers, and tomatoes, plus homemade apple butter, jams, and preserves. Reach them at (651) 463-7387.

Town of Trenton

Town of Somerset

White Bear Lake

This is the strawberry side of Pine Tree Apple Orchard at 450 Apple Orchard Road near White Bear Lake. Pick-your-own strawberries run a short window from mid-June into early July, before the orchard closes to prep for apple season. The same farm reopens in mid-August with 25 apple varieties, a bakery, and fresh cider.

Dellwood

Pine Tree Apple Orchard grows 25 apple varieties on Apple Orchard Road northeast of the Twin Cities, with apple season running mid-August into February. The on-site bakery draws people for pies, fresh cider, and caramel apples. Fall weekends add a corn maze, pumpkin patch, and wagon rides. Generations of White Bear Lake area families have made it a fall tradition.

Northfield

Little Hill Berry Farm is one of the few certified-organic pick-your-own berry farms in Minnesota, on 320th Street West outside Northfield, about 45 minutes south of the Twin Cities. Aaron Wills and Molly McGovern Wills grow blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and currants. The season opens with a plant sale in May, moves to u-pick blueberries and currants in July, and finishes with pre-picked strawberries and raspberries in August and September.

Beldenville

Bay City

Northfield

This 320th Street address in rural Northfield is home to Little Hill Berry Farm, a certified-organic grower. It sells pre-picked strawberries from August into early October and opens pick-your-own organic raspberries from mid-August through mid-September at $8 a pound. The late strawberry season comes from day-neutral varieties rather than the usual June crop. The farm sits in Rice County, south of the Twin Cities.

Lakeville

Sixteen apple varieties grow across this 32-acre orchard south of Lakeville, including Honeycrisp, Zestar! and SweeTango, alongside a pick-your-own pumpkin patch. Apple picking, weekend hayrides, a hedge maze and a corn pit are free; a jumping pillow, sunflower field and corn maze carry an admission fee. The shop stocks apples, local honey and baked goods. Planted in 1991, the orchard recently changed hands and reopened with revamped fall activities. Reach them at [email protected].

Roseville

R&R Cultivation grows organic gourmet mushrooms and sells them to Twin Cities co-ops, grocers, and restaurants. Beyond fresh mushrooms, the farm ships pre-sterilized growing supplies to home cultivators and other mushroom farms across the country. The growing operation runs weekday hours out of New Hope, though this listing carries a Roseville address.

Northfield

Fossum Family Farm raises suri and huacaya alpacas alongside Scottish Highland cattle and Boer goats south of Northfield. The alpaca fleece becomes yarn and finished goods like sweaters and hats, sold through the farm store. Tours and fiber demonstrations show visitors how raw fleece turns into a sweater. A mixed-livestock operation with fiber at its center.

Farmington

Highview Pastures raises grass-fed Angus beef and free-range pasture turkeys and chickens on a small Dakota County operation outside Farmington. No hormones or antibiotics are used, and the farm sells 100% grass-fed beef direct to nearby households. It's the kind of pasture-based setup that trades scale for closer control over how the animals are raised.

Red Wing

Flower Valley Orchard is on Orchard Road in Red Wing, in the Mississippi bluff country of Goodhue County that has long been apple ground. The listing pairs an orchard with flowers, but little is published online, so current offerings and hours are best confirmed with the farm directly.

New Richmond

Minneapolis

Swanson Meats has cut and distributed meat from its 26th Avenue South location in Minneapolis since 1962, and it's the largest independently owned wholesale meat company in Minnesota. The farmer-owned purveyor sources beef, pork, poultry, lamb, and seafood from local family farms and pushed natural and organic meat into the Twin Cities market early. It handles retail and foodservice plus co-packing and custom processing. Retail hours run weekdays and Saturday mornings.

Burnsville

A small Minnesota beekeeping operation selling raw and crystallized honey from its own hives, plus swarm removal and hive tours. The bees aren't treated with chemicals or given antibiotics, and forage on unsprayed ground. Listings place the apiary in Webster, southeast of the Twin Cities, rather than Burnsville. Call ahead to arrange honey pickup or a visit.

New Brighton

Crypticon Farm is listed on Cleveland Avenue in New Brighton, a first-ring Twin Cities suburb where working farms are rare. No website, contact details, or activity descriptions could be verified online, and the directory address is incomplete. Treat the listing as unconfirmed until reached directly.

Northfield

Bridgewater Produce Farm has grown fruits and vegetables two miles from downtown Northfield for more than 50 years. Fall brings a 6-acre corn maze, billed as the largest south of the river, plus a u-pick pumpkin patch with more than 30 varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squash, hayrides, yard games, and a corn box.

Dundas

Grace and Paul Silkey run this pick-your-own farm outside Dundas on land their family has held since 1952. Roughly three acres of strawberries lead the season, followed by raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, and about an acre of apples. They provide containers and offer pre-picked fruit when labor allows. Beyond the farm, their berries reach the Wedge and Linden Hills co-ops and markets in Dundas, Dennison, and Faribault.

Northfield

Cherry Leaf Farm grew an unusual crop for Minnesota: 650 bushes of cold-hardy tart cherries, planted by owner John Porterfield after two years of research into varieties that survive the climate. The farm also offered u-pick raspberries and strawberries at its Decker Avenue site outside Northfield. It has since closed permanently. The cherry bushes were chosen to yield a sweeter tart fruit than standard orchard trees.

Minneapolis

Floriade Tours appears in an agritourism directory at a residential address on Fremont Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, despite being filed here under Michigan. No details on tour offerings, pricing, or hours turned up online.

Ellsworth

Town of Salem

Webster

Nelson's Apple Farm has grown apples in northern Rice County since 1974, with 25-plus varieties for pick-your-own or pre-picked across 15 acres near Webster. Fall brings three fields of pumpkins, squash, and gourds, a barnyard of animals, weekend wagon rides, and the kitchen's trademarked Apple Dandies. Owner Ross Nelson is an Air Force veteran. The farm also sells pre-cut Christmas trees starting the day after Thanksgiving.

Webster

Ross Nelson has grown apples here since 1974, running a veteran-owned, pick-your-own orchard with more than 25 varieties across 15 acres in Rice County. The farm adds pumpkin, squash, and gourd fields, a barnyard of animals, weekend wagon rides in September and October, and a kitchen known for its trademarked Apple Dandies. Pre-cut Christmas trees go on sale the day after Thanksgiving.

Prior Lake

Harvest Gardens rents community garden plots and opens pick-your-own patches, including pumpkins and strawberries, on land between Prior Lake and Lakeville. A community-outreach mission runs underneath it: growing space for people who lack their own, plus seasonal produce for visitors. Vehicle access loops the perimeter of the plots.