Minnesota Grown

Homegrown Harvest Dinner: A Feast for the Future of Local Farming
2025-09-13 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Ferndale Market, 31659 Willow Trail, Cannon Falls, MN 55009, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, 55009, United States
Fresh flavors, live music, and community spirit will be on the table at the Homegrown Harvest Dinner on Saturday, September 13, 2025, hosted by the Cannon River Chapter of the Sustainable Farming Association (SFA) at Ferndale Market in Cannon Falls.
This first annual farm-to-table celebration unites local restaurants, farmers, and food artisans to create a multi-course feast featuring the best of southeastern Minnesota’s harvest. Every bite supports the Farmer-to-Farmer Fund, a lifeline providing quick-turnaround relief to local farmers facing crises such as weather disasters, medical emergencies, or equipment loss.
Guests will enjoy a seasonal menu crafted from locally grown and raised ingredients, along with the opportunity to meet the farmers and producers behind the plates. Ferndale Market will be open before and after the event so guests can shop for fresh, local foods to take home.
Event Details:
📅 Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
📍 Location: Ferndale Market, 31659 Willow Trail, Cannon Falls, MN 55009
⏰ Time: 5:00 p.m. Social Hour | 6:00 p.m. Dinner
🎟 Tickets:

SFA Member: $40
Cultivator Ticket: $75 – Covers dinner and helps sow the seeds for farmer support
Harvest Supporter Ticket: $100 – Nourishes more than your plate with a deeper impact
Harvest Champion Ticket: $150 – All-in for local with a generous contribution toward farmer relief

🎫 Purchase tickets here: https://secure.sfa-mn.org/np/clients/sfamn/eventRegistration.jsp?event=8551
To learn more about the Farmer-to-Farmer Fund and how it helps build resilience for local farmers, visit: Farmer-to-Farmer Fund Information.
Proceeds from the evening directly strengthen the Farmer-to-Farmer Fund, ensuring that farmers in Dodge, Goodhue, Steele, Rice, LeSueur, Dakota, and Scott Counties have a safety net in times of need. Sponsorships and in-kind donations are welcomed to increase the fund’s reach.

Butcher's Dinner & Barn Dance
2025-09-13 16:00 - 22:00 | Medicine Creek Farm, 68393 Scotch Pine Rd, Finlayson, MN, 55735, United States
Join the farmers, butchers, and chefs of Medicine Creek Farm, Yker Acres, Baptism River Barbecue and Denham Run Bar & Grill for a full-fledged farm-to-table community event!
4pm Regenerative Farm Tour
5pm Cocktail Hour & Market
6pm Butcher’s Dinner
7-10pm Barn Dance featuring Heartbreak Affair
The Butcher’s Dinner and Barn Dance is a local foods celebration for the community featuring a pop-up farmers’ market and regenerative farm tour followed by a farm-to-table dinner and a traditional barn dance with live music from Heartbreak Affair.
The pop-up farmers market features the wares and products of local farmers such as beeswax candles, tallow lotions, soaps and salves, herb salts and teas, wool crafts, fruits and vegetables, and cottage baked goods.
The farm-to-table dinner is crafted by Brian and the team at Baptism River Barbecue and Denham Run Bar & Grill using ingredients from Medicine Creek Farm, Y-ker Acres, Abraham’s Table Farm, Rising Phoenix Community Farm, Food Farm, Shepherd’s Way Farms, and more.
A cash bar includes cocktails and wine curated by the Libation Project from local and natural producers, as well as beer from Moose Lake Brewing and cider from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery.
The evening closes with an old-fashioned barn dance with classic country two-stepping music from Jason’s band, Heartbreak Affair.
Adults – $65
18 & Under – $20
6 & Under – Free

You-Pick Grape Harvest
2025-09-13 10:00 - 2025-09-15 16:00 | The Freemont Vineyard, 29641 County Road 29, Utica, MN, 55979, United States
Stop out and pick your own grapes in Southern Minnesota! Featuring premium Itasca, Frontenac Gris and Marquette grapes. Pay by the pound. Make your own wine, juice or whatever your heart desires!

Smooth Summer Nights
2025-09-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Sargent’s Gardens – North, 7955 18th Ave NW, Rochester, MN, 55901-8841, United States
Smooth Summer Nights is an event designed to bring our community together to enjoy an evening of food, drinks, and live music and celebrate the beauty and splendor of a garden in bloom! Summer is short. Let’s get out and enjoy it! Join us every 2nd Tuesday in June, July, August, and September for an evening in our garden at Sargent’s North.

The Fremont Vineyard You-pick grapes
2025-09-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Minnesota
Stop by and pick your own grapes at The Fremont Vineyard season opener. Open until 4 today and weekends from 10-4 through September or as long as the grapes allow. We have Itasca, Marquette and Frontenc Gris available. Make your own, juice, wine, syrup or jelly!

Lake Superior Harvest Festival
2025-09-06 10:00 - 16:00 | Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Minnesota, 55806, United States
10:00am – 4:00pm
Bayfront Festival Park ~ Free Admission
$10 for parking ~ Zero-Waste
A family-oriented event featuring a huge farmers market, live music all day, expanded Energy Fair experience, nonprofit exhibitors tent, educational demonstrations and much more!Suggested donation $5/person, $10/familyCheck for updates on Facebook!

We strive to be a zero-waste event! This means that trash will look differently than at other events. We require all our food vendors to use BPI-certified compostable serviceware, which will then go to WLSSD’s organics recycling and turn into beautiful soil. There are only 4 waste stations at the festival, and this is on purpose.
Volunteers from Eco-Rotary and others help us help you sort your waste, so that it goes into the proper bin, for only properly-sorted waste will reach its correct final destination. Last year we had only 8 bags of landfill waste after this all-day event, and that includes waste that was already in the park!
Thank you for your cooperation in helping us lead the way to more sustainable events!

Farmer's Market
2025-09-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Minnesota
I’ll be selling things I produce on my city lot in St. Anthony Park. This month I’ll be selling baked goods with apples, late summer produce, jellies, pickles, and sauces. I also have a table where you can make your own floral arrangement. All organic, sustainably raised and packaged. Pay what you want. 50% of proceeds go to Loaves and Fishes.

Minnesota State Fair
2025-08-21 07:00 - 2025-09-01 23:00 | Agriculture-Horticulture Building, 1271 Underwood St, Falcon Heights, MN, 55108, United States
The Great Minnesota Get-Together
Find Minnesota Grown at the State Fair in the Ag-Hort Building!
This end-of-summer tradition is held the 12 days leading up to and through Labor Day.
Visit Minnesota Grown members at our Member Table and learn how you can support local! Then, walk through our Minnesota Grown in Your Home display to experience the wide variety and diversity of Minnesota’s agricultural products.
Check out Storytime with MN Agriculture in the Classroom from 10am-11am on your way!

New Ulm Farmers Market Farm-to-Fun Day
2025-08-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Historic Downtown New Ulm, 1 N Minnesota St New Ulm, MN 56021, United States
The New Ulm Farmers Market is hosting four Farm-to-Fun Days throughout the 2025 season (6-21, 7-26, 8-16, 9-27). These days will have family-friendly activities, live music, and more! Check out www.newulm.com/farmersmarket for more details.

Utopia Borealis Summer Music Nights
2025-08-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Sitio Events, 159 N Cloquet Road East, Esko, MN, 55733, United States
Come dance your way into a great time with LIVE Bossa nova music. The Buffalo Function Music Band will have you fall in love with this Brazilian jazz as you enjoy the evening.
All ages are welcome. N/A drinks will be available for purchase. Band and dancing will take place in Sitio Event’s beautiful outdoor space.
$10 ticket
159 N Cloquet Road East, Esko, MN 55733
In case of inclement weather, the event will take place indoors in the venue’s greenhouse.

Minnesota Garlic Festival
2025-08-09 10:00 - 17:00 | McLeod County Fairgrounds, 840 Century Ave. SW Hutchinson, MN, United States
Fun-filled, family-friendly and fragrant, Featuring fantastic local foods, celebrity chefs, marvelous music, area artisans, goofy games and lots of garlic – all in support of sustainable farmers, a healthy environment and vital rural communities in Minnesota.

Open House at Caliton Family Farm
2025-08-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Caliton Family Farm, 4668 130 Ave N, Moorhead, MN, 56550
Bring your friends and family to celebrate the harvest season and learn about food waste reduction!
Learn about regional initiatives tackling food waste reduction through a guest presentation and farm tour.
Farm products will be available for purchase!
Events will be held primarily outdoors, so please dress accordingly.
FREE to attend!

Minnesota Farmers' Market Week
2025-08-03 - 2025-08-09 | Minnesota
Minnesotans are invited to celebrate the bounty of the harvest season during Farmers’ Market Week, taking place August 3 – 9.
This annual celebration highlights the vital role farmers’ markets play in strengthening local economies, supporting small and emerging farmers, and expanding access to fresh, locally grown food. With fun events, programming, contests, and activities, the week showcases the value markets bring to their communities.
Minnesota Grown, Minnesota Farmers’ Market Association, Minnesota Farmers Union, and Land Stewardship Project to recognize the week with events at nine farmers markets across the state.

Crookston Farmers’ Market – Downtown Central Square, 151 E 3rd St, Crookston, Thursday, Aug 7, 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Moorhead Farmers’ Market – Viking Ship Park, 202 1st Ave N, Moorhead, Tuesday, Aug 5, 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Pope County Farmers’ Market – Pope County Museum Parking Lot, State Hwy 104 S, Glenwood, Saturday, Aug 9, 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
St. Joseph Farmers’ Market – Lake Wobegon Trailhead, 610 Co Rd 2, St. Joseph, Friday, Aug 8, 3 – 6 p.m.
Marshall Farmers’ Market – 200 South A St., Marshall, Saturday, Aug 9, 7:30 a.m. – noon
North Mankato Farmers’ Market – Caswell Park, 1825 W. Howard Dr., North Mankato, Monday, Aug 4, 3 – 6 p.m.
Eyota Farmers’ Market – West Side Park, 303 5th St SW, Eyota, Tuesday, Aug 5, 4 – 7 p.m.
Buffalo Farmers’ Market – 100 1st Ave NE, Buffalo, Saturday, Aug 9, 8 a.m. – noon
Virginia Market Square – 111 S 9th Ave W, Virginia, Thursday, Aug 7, 2:30 – 6 p.m.
