Farms Near Stillwater, MN

Stillwater

Axdahl’s Garden Farm History Axdahl's Farm & Greenhouse Stillwater MinnesotaThe early years – Brian Axdahl with a prize winning pumpkin. “Many years ago, when I was just a kid, I would go down to the end of the road to sell sweet corn and pumpkins we’d just picked,” reminisces Brian Axdahl. That’s when it all started, Axdahl’s Garden Farm & Greenhouse was born. From freshly picked produce sold at the end of the road to freshly picked produce sold at our farm market in Stillwater MN. Axdahl’s Gar

Stillwater

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

A naturally grown, pick-your-own blueberry farm at 9450 Mendel Road North in Stillwater, family-run and shifting toward organic using composted poultry manure, fish emulsion, and mulch. Picnic areas make it an easy family outing. The farm opens only when berries are ready, so seasons vary; call (651) 351-0492 or check the site before visiting. More at blueberryfieldsofstillwater.com.

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.

Stillwater Twp.

A township-run market that operated at 13636 90th Street North in Stillwater Township, taking cash and card with some indoor space. Recent directory listings show it has wound down, with no future dates planned. Anyone after a nearby option can check the downtown Stillwater market at Veterans Memorial in the city.

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.

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.

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].

Stillwater

For more than 50 years, this Saturday market has set up at 3rd and Pine in the Riverview parking lot across from Stillwater's Historic Courthouse, running 7:30 a.m. to noon from June through October. Vendors sell organic produce, farm eggs, maple syrup, honey, bread, croissants, microgreens, soap, and coffee — a mix leaning toward small-batch and handmade goods over bulk produce. It's a fixture of downtown Stillwater's Saturday routine.

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.

Stillwater

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mahtomedi

A small Saturday market at Veterans Memorial Park (formerly Triangle Park) on Mahtomedi Ave, running 8 a.m. to noon from late June through late September. Growers, bakers, artists, and crafters set up alongside fresh cut flowers, honey, eggs, berries, meat, and handmade goods in downtown Mahtomedi.

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.

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.

Marine On St. Croix

Renee Arcand grows and sells cut flowers at her farm on May Avenue in Marine on St. Croix, working the whole operation herself without pesticides. She offers U-pick and pre-cut stems by appointment from July 1 through the first frost, selling flowers by the pail for DIY arrangements or made up into bouquets for weddings and events. Reach her at [email protected] or (651) 433-5075.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oakdale

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.

Oakdale

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.

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.

Hugo

KDE Farms in Hugo, Minnesota is a fourth-generation family business tracing to Leo and Anna Ehret's 1920s Woodbury farm, relaunched by Brian and Roberta Ehret in 2004 on principles of innovation, sustainability, and stewardship. The farm raises 100% grass-fed and finished beef, pastured pigs, and chickens moved every other day in chicken tractors, plus premium hardneck garlic and spring maple syrup from its own sugar bush.

White Bear Lake

Big Red Barn Farmers' Market runs Sundays, June through September, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Bruentrup Heritage Farm near White Bear Lake. The Maplewood Area Historical Society hosts it on the grounds of a preserved farmstead, and vendors sell fresh vegetables, handmade sourdough, soap, candles, and homemade salsa. Organizers call it "the biggest little farmers market around" — small lot, loyal crowd.

White Bear Lake

White Bear Lake's downtown market has run since the 1970s and still draws more than 50 vendors, many from multi-generation farm families, to Clark Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets. It runs the last Friday of June through the last Friday of October, 8 a.m. to noon, with produce, honey, maple syrup, wild rice, cheese, meat, and bedding plants. FMNP coupons accepted.

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.

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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.

Maplewood

This Wednesday market runs 8 AM to noon, May through October, in the Aldrich Arena parking lot on White Bear Avenue. It's one of the St. Paul Farmers' Market Association's markets, selling locally grown vegetables, fruit, cut flowers, plants, and artisan food goods. The market accepts EBT, cash, cards, and Market Bucks.

Poplar Hill Dairy Goat Farm raises dairy goats in Minnesota. No website or listing turned up to confirm herd size, products, or location beyond the name.

Scandia

Scandia Farmers' Market has run out of the Scandia Community Center parking lot since 2011, with vendors selling locally grown vegetables, fruit, honey, eggs, jam, salsa, and handmade crafts. It meets every Wednesday from early June through July, then shifts to evening hours in August and September to pair with the Levitt AMP concert series, when food trucks join the vendor lineup. A small spring plant sale kicks off the season before the regular market opens.

Osceola

Forest Lake

Hastings

St. Paul

Scandia

This Scandia farm sells bedding plants, fresh produce and homemade soup mix directly on-site, and hosts farm tours plus sweet-corn roasting for parties and events. A Mother's Day event and a May 'Potting Weekend' anchor the spring calendar. The produce carries Food Alliance Midwest certification. It sits on Oakhill Road in the farm country north of Stillwater near the St. Croix River.

St Paul

Hmong Village is a sprawling indoor marketplace at 1001 Johnson Parkway with more than 250 vendors under one roof, including a produce and fresh-food section alongside restaurants, delis, and general merchandise stalls. It's less a single farmers market than a marketplace with farmers-market-style produce stands built into a much larger Hmong-community retail complex. Open most days of the week; call ahead if you're making a special trip.

Somerset

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.

River Falls

River Falls

Hudson

Centerville

Centerville Main St Market sets up near Centerville Elementary on select summer Thursday evenings, mixing fresh flowers, cottage foods, and local artisan vendors with food trucks and live music. Parking is free and plentiful, which matters in a town this size — check the market's Facebook page for the week's exact date and lineup.

Minneapolis

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.

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.

Osceola

Lindstrom

Tom and Teresa grow pumpkins near Lindstrom, priced at $3.99 for any size you pick, with an eight-acre corn maze, gourds, decorative corn, and cornstalks alongside. The farm opens late September through October 31, staying open to 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. It grew out of a wholesale operation after the couple started inviting kindergarten classes out for cookies and pumpkin lessons. Find it on Panola Drive.

Forest Lake

Forest Lake's farmers market sets up Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. to noon, from June through October on Broadway Avenue. It's run through the city's parks department and has shifted locations a few times in recent years — check the current listing before heading over. Vendors sell fresh local produce along with other seasonal goods typical of a small-town Minnesota market.