Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Minneapolis, MN

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.

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.

Golden Valley

Raw honey pulled from the operation's own hives, sold seven days a week from a small farm market on the Golden Valley and St. Louis Park line. This is urban honey, from hives kept in the western Minneapolis suburbs. The beekeeper takes calls between 8am and 10pm and keeps retail jars on hand. Reach out at 952-486-0856 or [email protected].

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.

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.

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.

Champlin

Lino Lakes

Waldoch Farm is a family-run garden center and fall adventure farm about 20 minutes north of the Twin Cities in Lino Lakes. The garden center stocks hundreds of annuals, perennials, vegetable and herb plants, shrubs, and accessories, alongside farm-fresh produce. From April through October the Joyer Adventure Farm side adds a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, corn maze, wagon rides, a low ropes course, and barnyard animals. Closed Tuesdays.

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.

Lino Lakes

Mike Bees is a small beekeeping operation in Lino Lakes, in Anoka County north of the Twin Cities. The name points to a local honey producer working hives for raw honey and related products. No website or contact details were verifiable online, so reach out directly about honey, which usually comes off the hives from late summer into fall.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shakopee

The roadside stand opens daily from July into October with sweet corn, pumpkins, watermelon, berries and a wide range of vegetables. Peter grew up in a local farming family; Carmen came from Peru to teach Spanish, and the two started this Shakopee farm in 1999. October brings daily U-pick pumpkins and a corn maze, with free hayrides and U-pick apples on weekends. Call (952) 906-0247 or order through peterspumpkins.com.

East Bethel

Bruce and Sharon Johnson grow vegetables and fruit on 72 acres along Highway 65 in East Bethel, without herbicides or pesticides. The farm stand carries produce, meats, and eggs, and spring brings tomato, pepper, herb, and melon plants for your own garden. They started in 2013. The stand sits on the northbound side of Highway 65, just north of Viking Boulevard, open most days but closed Mondays.

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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shakopee

First cut in 1997, Sever's was the first corn maze in Minnesota and still the largest, carved fresh each year on 100 acres in Shakopee. Past designs have included a sinking Titanic, a map of the world and safari scenes. It has grown into Sever's Fall Festival with more than 30 attractions: an obstacle course, corn pits holding 10,000 bushels each, a straw-bale maze, a giant slide and a pick-your-own pumpkin field, plus food, beer and wine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cedar Lake

Thompsons' Hillcrest Orchard, founded in 1996, grows more than 1,800 trees and 13 apple varieties, including Honeycrisp, SweeTango, and First Kiss, along 250th Street East in the Cedar Lake/Elko area of Scott County. Beyond pick-your-own and pre-picked apples, it runs a corn maze and sells pumpkins and gourds plus apple pies, jams, jellies, and caramel apples. It's a family operation south of the Twin Cities.

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.

Carver

This Carver business is mainly a party-rental company, offering bounce houses, laser tag, tents, tables, and concessions, and has run since 2012. Each October it opens a pumpkin patch on County Road 40, with a farm stand selling pumpkins, mini pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks, and straw bales, plus weekend entertainment. The pumpkin season is the farm-facing side of an otherwise events-focused operation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hugo

Down on the Farm brings pony rides and a traveling petting zoo to birthdays, festivals, and private events around Hugo and the northeast metro. The farm also offers equine therapy sessions and books party entertainment through the season. Animals come to your event, or groups visit the Keystone Avenue farm directly.

Forest Lake

Covered Bridge Farm is a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm north of Forest Lake, selling Balsam, Canaan, and Fraser fir along with Meyer and Norway spruce, plus wreaths and garland. In late summer and fall it also offers pre-picked apples such as Honeycrisp, Zestar, Haralson, Honeygold, and Oriole, and Summer Crisp and Luscious pears. The farm has run since 1995. It sits about four miles north of Hugo on US 61.

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.

Webster

Mike and Gretchen Perbix took over this Webster orchard in 2010 and grow 99 apple varieties, from Honeycrisp to Golden Russet and Northern Spy. They press fresh cider on site and run a cidery making nine hard ciders that range from dry to sweet, including a single-varietal Northern Spy and a Cherry Rhubarb Scrumpy. The orchard opens weekends in September and October with apples, baked goods, and cidery and orchard tours.

Wyoming

Pinehaven Farm runs a fall festival with more than 35 attractions on Kettle River Boulevard in Wyoming, about 30 minutes north of the Twin Cities off I-35. The pumpkin patch has been voted best in Minnesota, and the season also brings haunted hayrides, bonfire rentals, and school field trips. The family farm dates to 1950 and opens its 2026 fall run on September 12.

Scandia

Natura Farms is on Manning Trail North in Scandia, in the St. Croix valley country of Washington County northeast of the Twin Cities. The listing marks it as an agritourism farm, but no working website could be verified, so current crops and any pick-your-own hours are best confirmed with the farm directly.

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.

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.

Wyoming

Sunrise River Apple Farm is an apple orchard on Wyoming Trail in Wyoming, in Chisago County's lake-and-orchard belt north of the Twin Cities. Apples in this area come on from late August through October. No active website could be confirmed, so check picking availability with the farm directly before visiting.

Wyoming

Pick your own pumpkins straight from a 40-acre field here, priced around $5 each, along with gourds, squash, Indian corn, giant pumpkins, straw bales, mums and raw honey. The patch runs seven days a week, 9 a.m. to dusk, from the third Saturday of September through October 31. Kids get a play area and corn pit; hayrides run on weekends. Bring cash or a check, since cards aren't accepted, though there's an on-site ATM.

Renee grows cut flowers on this small farm near Marine on St. Croix, north of Stillwater, and has since 1995. You can buy blooms by the pail to arrange yourself or order finished arrangements. The stand sits on May Avenue North in the St. Croix valley, where the season runs from late spring through first frost.

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].

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.

Jordan

Over 100 apple varieties grow across roughly 30,000 trees here, a Sponsel family orchard since 1971 between Jordan and Belle Plaine. Pick your own in October or buy fresh-picked at the Apple Lodge through November. The farm runs a bakery and kitchen, a petting farm, hiking trails, and wagon rides with bonfires from mid-May into December. It also hosts weddings, birthday parties, and day camps.

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

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

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.