Farms Near Shakopee, MN

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.

Shakopee

Downtown Shakopee's farmers market sets up outdoors along Lewis Street from spring through fall, with local growers alongside vendors selling spreads, baked goods, crafts, and prepared food. It runs as part of the city's downtown revitalization push, drawing shoppers into the historic core instead of a parking-lot pop-up. Produce availability shifts with the Minnesota growing season, so early spring means transplants and greens, late summer brings sweet corn and tomatoes.

Shakopee

This Shakopee market runs Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at 1455 St Francis Ave, giving locals a weekly chance to buy straight from the farmers and producers who grow their food. It's a smaller, community-scale market — local growers selling what's in season alongside crafts and other homemade goods. The market keeps an active Facebook page with vendor updates and around 800 followers.

Shakopee

American Legion Post 2, a veteran support nonprofit, hosts this open-air market at 1266 1st Avenue East in Shakopee — one of three farmers markets operating in the city. Vendors sell fresh, local produce and organic goods. Call 612-245-0476 or visit american-legion-post-2.myfreesites.net for current hours.

Chaska

Chaska's downtown market runs Thursdays, June 5 through October 2, at City Square Park, with live music from 6 to 7:30 p.m. most weeks. The SouthWest Metro Chamber of Commerce — which also covers Chanhassen, Carver, and Victoria — runs the market, and vendors sell produce, eggs, meat, cheese, honey, maple syrup, candles, soap, pottery, and jewelry alongside food trucks. SNAP/EBT accepted.

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.

Chanhassen

Chanhassen Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through September, at City Center Park. More than 30 vendors rotate through the season, and the market runs a youth program that hands kids ages 3 to 18 weekly funds to spend on fresh produce. SNAP/EBT accepted. Reach the market at [email protected].

Chanhassen

Lakewinds Food Co-op is a community-owned, local grocery store with the highest standards around. We have three stores, 300+ employees, and a passion for local, sustainably grown food. Our mission is to promote sustainable agriculture, support local makers, sustain our communities, and protect our planet. There’s no membership required to shop — all are welcome, and we’d love to meet you!

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.

Carver

Carver Farmers' Market runs Tuesdays, 3 to 6 p.m., June through late September, with small farms and food businesses selling direct — vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, cheese, artisan bread, honey, maple syrup, and starter plants, plus a food truck most weeks. No middlemen, no chain-store markup, just what growers in Carver County brought that morning.

Sutton Ridge Farm is an 80-acre Century Farm in Jordan recognized by the state since 1856, raising 100% grass-fed Scottish Highland cattle and corn-and-soy-free milk-fed hogs alongside Leicester Longwool sheep for fleece and yarn. The farm sells through Barn2Door with on-farm pickup every other Saturday, 9am-1pm, and Tuesdays 3-6pm, and supplies Highland beef to Olivia's Organic Cafe in the Twin Cities.

Prior Lake

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.

Prior Lake

Prior Lake's market sets up along Main Avenue SE in this Scott County suburb south of the Twin Cities. As with most Minnesota outdoor markets, it runs during the warmer months; specific days and vendor details weren't independently confirmed.

Excelsior

The Lake Minnetonka Excelsior Farmers Market runs Thursday afternoons through summer in the east parking lot of Excelsior Elementary at 441 Oak Street. Vendors sell local produce alongside artisan goods, and the market accepts SNAP/EBT and Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits for shoppers who qualify. It's a straightforward neighborhood market — no festival trappings, just growers and a rotating cast of makers.

Victoria

Field Good Garden and Market operates out of 8099 Bavaria Road in Victoria as a garden center and market combined, selling seasonal produce alongside bedding plants, flowers, and other garden essentials. It runs spring through fall, following Minnesota's growing season rather than a fixed festival calendar. Call ahead if you're after a specific item — inventory shifts with what's actually ready to sell.

Eden Prairie

The Eden Prairie Indoor Farmers Market runs out of 770 Prairie Center Drive, giving local growers and food producers a heated space to sell once Minnesota's outdoor market season ends. Vendors offer produce, prepared foods, and handmade goods, though the exact lineup rotates week to week. It's one of two indoor locations under the same organizers, with a sister market in Plymouth.

Excelsior

Join us at the Excelsior Farmers Market and immerse yourself in a vibrant variety of locally sourced produce, artisanal goods, delicious prepared food and drinks, and a community that buzzes with excitement & entertainment! Open Thursdays 2-6pm. We Accept SNAP/EBT and Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP).

Jordan

Jordan Farmers Market runs out of 225 Water Street, operating indoors from spring through fall with local growers, bakers, and meat and dairy producers. The market recently returned after a break, relaunching with support from Jordan's Scott County community. It's a small-town market — expect a handful of regular vendors rather than a sprawling list.

Minnetonka

Lakewinds Food Co-op is a community-owned, local grocery store with the highest standards around. We have three stores, 300+ employees, and a passion for local, sustainably grown food. Our mission is to promote sustainable agriculture, support local makers, sustain our communities, and protect our planet. There’s no membership required to shop — all are welcome, and we’d love to meet you!

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.

Minnetonka

Minnetonka

A woman-owned urban apiary and small farm in the Glen Lake area of Minnetonka, at 13500 Excelsior Boulevard, open daily 9am to 6pm. The business sells honey and beeswax candles from its own Minnetonka hives, plus vegetables, flowers, and CSA shares. Rare plants grown in the on-site greenhouses round out the stock. More at enchantedgardens.blog.

Minnetonka

Minnetonka

Indoors at the Minnetonka Community Center on Minnetonka Blvd, this winter market runs occasional Saturdays through December and February with local foods and handmade gifts, live music, and SNAP/EBT matching that doubles the first $10 spent into Winter Market Bucks. Summer tokens carry over to winter dates.

Hopkins

The winter edition of Hopkins Farmers' Market runs November through mid-December, 9 a.m. to noon, indoors at the Hopkins Activity Center. It's a shorter, colder-weather stand-in for the main Saturday market that runs June through October at a different downtown Hopkins location, aimed at vendors with produce, preserves, and gifts that hold up past first frost.

Spring Park

The Artimer Market — artisan plus farmer — sets up at Back Channel Brewing on Lake Minnetonka the last Wednesday of each month, May through September, 5 to 8 p.m. More than 20 local vendors sell food, art, jewelry, crafts, and clothing while the taproom pours its own lagers and imperial stouts and a band plays outside. It's less a produce stand and more a lakeside artisan fair with beer.

Hopkins

Wayzata

Wayzata Farmers' Market runs Thursday afternoons through the growing season on Lake Street, with its own vendor directory rather than a generic listing-service page. The market publishes a weekly newsletter covering vendor specials and keeps a seasonal photo gallery and recipe page built around whatever produce is in. It's a longstanding fixture of this Lake Minnetonka town's summer calendar, and it recruits new food vendors through an application process on its site.

Savage

Set up near the old train depot in downtown Savage, this Sunday market runs 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is operated by the Saint Paul Growers' Association, the same nonprofit that's run Twin Cities markets since 1854. Growers sell produce, cut flowers, plants, and artisan food, all sourced locally. Kids can hunt for Maggie the Market Goat, a running scavenger-hunt feature with a prize at the info booth. EBT and Market Bucks accepted.

A community market at 2450 Wilshire Boulevard in Mound, serving the Westonka area on the west side of Lake Minnetonka. Local vendors sell produce and homemade goods through the growing season, with cash and card accepted. The Westonka Food Shelf has also run free farmers markets in the same community.

Mound

Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., late May through mid-October, on Shoreline Dr in Mound. Locally grown produce shares table space with beef, chicken, eggs, maple syrup, jellies, salsas, honey, mushrooms, and handmade soaps and lotions, with live music most weekends.

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.

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.

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.

Webster

Backlund Acres runs a farm store in Belle Plaine selling local vegetables, flowers, and pick-your-own produce, open Fridays 11am-4pm and Saturdays 8am-12pm. The farm also offers CSA delivery from June through mid-October, a u-pick CSA option, and a co-op share earned through work shifts.

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Edina

Centennial Lakes Farmers' Market runs Thursdays, 3 to 7 p.m., June through late September at Edina's Centennial Lakes Park. Beyond the produce, meat, honey, and baked goods, the market runs on Edina Liquor profits — $350,000 of them funded park operations in 2024 — and adds live music, a beer and wine garden, free kids' fishing, and Edina Art Center craft activities. Admission and parking are free.

New Prague

Roman and Fran Barten have run Barten Pumpkins for more than 30 years, about 45 minutes southwest of the Twin Cities in New Prague. The patch grows more than 45 varieties of pumpkins, squash, and gourds, plus broom corn and straw bales for fall decorating. Admission is free, with photo spots, games, and live music on select weekends.

Plymouth

Plymouth's market runs out of the city's west side along County Road 6, in one of the Twin Cities' largest western suburbs. Minnesota outdoor markets typically run summer into early fall; specific hours weren't confirmed here.

Plymouth

New Prague

Held twice a week, May through October, Wednesdays 3 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon, the New Prague Farmers Market brings organic food, fruits, vegetables, local specialties, and crafts to downtown New Prague, with live entertainment at the Saturday market.

Bloomington

When the outdoor season ends, Bloomington's market moves indoors at the same Civic Plaza address, trading the parking lot for a heated hall through the coldest months. Vendors still sell local meat, baked goods, and preserved produce alongside crafts, just without the July sunburn. Same organizers, same line — (952) 563-8877 or [email protected].

Bloomington

Bloomington Farmers' Market runs Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the east lot of Bloomington Civic Plaza at 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd. Growers, producers, and food makers sell direct to shoppers, with a Market Bucks program stretching SNAP and WIC dollars further. The city's parks department runs it — reach them at (952) 563-8877 or [email protected].

Plymouth

This is the Plymouth location of the Eden Prairie Indoor Farmers Market group, set up at 10050 6th Ave N under the same organizers as the Prairie Center Drive market. Vendors sell seasonal produce, baked goods, bedding plants, preserves, and cut flowers, with availability tied to what's actually in season. Despite the name, the market itself operates in Plymouth, not Eden Prairie.

Grass Fed Cattle Co. sells 100% grass-fed and finished beef, pasture-raised pork, and free-range chicken sourced from farmers across Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Orders go through an online store with Twin Cities pickup or home delivery to surrounding suburbs. Meat is raised without antibiotics, added hormones, or GMO feed.

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.

Minneapolis

This Chowen Ave S address in the Fulton neighborhood belongs to the Fulton Farmers Market, a sister market to Kingfield under the same nonprofit, Neighborhood Roots. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., mid-May through October, with produce, baked goods, flowers, and artisan crafts. SNAP-EBT and Market Bucks accepted.

Minneapolis

The market long known as Fulton Farmers Market operates Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., mid-May through October, run by the nonprofit Neighborhood Roots. It's since been renamed the Southwest Farmers Market and relocated, but the same organization and vendor base — farms, cottage bakers, small food producers — carries over. It accepts SNAP-EBT and Market Bucks.

Burnsville

Aspen Ridge Honey Farm keeps bee colonies across southern Minnesota and has expanded into organic microgreens alongside its honey line. The farm sells through an online store and a rotating summer schedule of Twin Cities-area farmers markets including Bloomington, St. Paul Lowertown, Burnsville, Roseville, Lakeville, Apple Valley, Savage, and Inver Grove Heights.

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].

Waconia

Waconia Farmers' Market sets up in the Waconia Square parking lot on First Street every Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., running from early June into mid-October. Now in its 23rd year, it has grown from a small grassroots gathering into a city-backed weekly event mixing fresh produce, eggs, jam, and baked goods with flea-market and craft vendors. Organizers have been actively recruiting more producers of berries, honey, syrup, and tallow to round out the food offerings.

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.

An 'udderly unique' market with an eco and education bent, held Thursdays 3 to 7pm in July and August off Highway 12 and Main Street in Maple Plain. Vendors sell produce, flowers, baked goods, honey, maple syrup, spices, and handmade wares. A cow mascot and the Calves' Corner kids' art table make it a family stop, with music and giveaways each week.

Waconia

Deardorff Orchards spreads across 120 acres near Lake Waconia, with 12 apple varieties on more than 3,000 pick-your-own trees and five cold-climate wine grapes on some 3,100 vines. The 125-year-old barn houses Parley Lake Winery and its tasting room, pouring wines made from the estate grapes. Apple season runs late August into early November, with hayrides and a pumpkin patch, plus a shop selling mums, local honey, jams, cider, and pumpkins.

Golden Valley

The winter version of Golden Valley's market moves indoors at City Hall, held the second Sunday of each month, November through March, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Over 20 vendors sell foods, crafts, and gifts, a smaller-scale continuation of the Sunday summer market on Golden Valley Rd.

Golden Valley

Golden Valley's outdoor market sets up behind City Hall under the water tower, Sundays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., June through October. Local growers, bakers, artisans, and food makers sell fresh produce, cheese, honey, and crafts, with music and kids' activities running through the day.

Burnsville

This Burnsville market sets up Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., May through late October, in the parking lot of Mary, Mother of the Church. It's part of the St. Paul Farmers' Market network — the same organization running markets since 1854 — so expect vegetables, fruit, cut flowers, plants, and artisan food goods sold straight off growers' trucks. Reach the network office at (651) 227-8101.