Agritourism & Farm Experiences near Monticello, MN

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Cut-your-own Christmas trees are the draw here, with short-needle spruce from four to twenty feet plus a smaller supply of white pine, balsam, and Fraser fir. The Petersons have farmed trees around Becker since 1956, and Lee later added an apple orchard, so fall brings U-pick apples before the December tree season. Trees grow naturally green. Bring a saw or borrow one at the lot off 149th Avenue.

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.

Clear Lake

B&J Evergreen grows Christmas and landscape trees across a 200-acre spread in Clear Lake. In December you can cut your own or grab a pre-cut tree, plus wreaths and holiday greenery. The rest of the year the farm sells landscape-sized evergreens and shade trees. A working tree farm rather than a one-weekend lot.

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.

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.

Clear Lake

Brothers Paul and Gary Gray started Grayson's Berryland in 1983, and it grows strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries across about 10 acres near Clear Lake. Staff pick roughly 60 percent of the fields, leaving the rest open for u-pick; early morning tends to be the best time to fill a bucket. The farm sits near the junction of Highway 24 and County Road 8. Call (320) 743-3384 for what's ripe.

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.

Annandale

Sunny Acres runs a fall pumpkin patch off County Road 39 northwest of Annandale, in Wright County's lake country. Beyond a Facebook page, little is documented online, so the pumpkin season and hours are best confirmed there before a visit. This is farm-stand pumpkin picking in central Minnesota, roughly an hour from the Twin Cities.

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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clearwater

Blue Acres grows blueberries using natural methods on Franklin Road in Clearwater, selling both pick-your-own and pre-picked berries along with honey from hives on the farm. The setup includes a picnic area and restrooms for visitors during the summer picking season. The farm has operated since 2010. Blueberry ripening shifts year to year, so check the farm's updates before driving out.

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.

Princeton

The Historic Deglman Farm in Princeton traces back to 1934, built around a dairy barn raised in 1946 that now anchors weddings and events. The barn loft holds up to 250 guests, giving the property a rustic, working-farm backdrop rather than a built-for-show venue feel. It's run as a family event business more than a produce or u-pick operation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sauk Rapids

Jack's Apple Farm on Highway 95 NE in Sauk Rapids grows apples without sprays or pesticides and bakes fresh bread on-site each morning. It's a small operation pairing the orchard with 'Jack's Fresh Bread,' with loaves baked early and sold alongside the fruit. Apples ripen through the fall picking season.

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.

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.

Champlin

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.

Saint Cloud

Listed here as White Honey Tree Farm, this veteran- and family-run Saint Cloud operation goes by White Honey Bee Farm. It produces raw local honey and beeswax products alongside apples, vegetables, eggs, chickens, goats, and hogs. Its honey turns up at the Princeton, Sartell, Otsego, and Sauk Rapids farmers markets. The farm leans on natural food and low resource use across its diverse mix of crops and animals.

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.

St Cloud

Blueberry Summer is a blueberry farm in the St. Cloud area of central Minnesota, in Stearns County along the Mississippi River. Cultivated blueberries here ripen from mid-July through August, when u-pick farms open their rows. A search surfaced no website or specific hours, so watch local listings for opening dates during the short picking window.

St. Augusta

Harvest of Horror is a seasonal haunted attraction on 30 acres at 4108 200th Street in St. Augusta, about 15 minutes south of St. Cloud. A tractor pulls hay wagons of roughly 20 riders through a corn maze and woods full of costumed actors, ending in a haunted house walk-through, a 20 to 30 minute trip. It runs Fridays and Saturdays 7 to 11pm around Halloween; tickets are $25, and part of the proceeds goes to a local nonprofit.

South Haven

A diversified orchard, flower farm and pumpkin patch on 50 acres in South Haven, growing standard Minnesota apples plus varieties bred on-site, including the KinderKrisp. The farm cuts flowers and salad greens and turns its fruit into pies, crisps and jam. Pick-your-own apples and a themed corn maze run in fall. The farmstore occupies part of an 1800s Yankee barn and stocks apples, jam and pies alongside local honey, maple syrup and crafts. Call (320) 236-7685.

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.

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].

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.

Isanti

Green Barn Garden Center is a third-generation family greenhouse and nursery on Highway 65 in Isanti, growing most of its annuals and perennials on site since 1957. Alongside plants it runs a small produce stand, garden workshops, and a sunflower field across the highway with food trucks and timed bloom updates. Summer brings fresh produce grown on the surrounding farm.

Isanti

Broken Tree Horse and Harness is a horse and harness operation listed in Isanti, in the Anoka and Isanti County horse country north of the Twin Cities. Little public information exists online about its current hours or services. Anyone planning a visit should contact the business directly to confirm what it offers.