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Take the family pumpkin picking or gather up locally grown apples to make your favorite pies, bars and crisps.
We love fall, a bushel and a peck. Take the family pumpkin picking or gather up locally grown apples to make your favorite pies, bars and crisps. Places we love:
- Whistling Well Farm in Hastings, Minn.
- Aamodt’s Apple Farm Bakery & Store in Stillwater, Minn.
- Pleasant Valley Orchard in Shafer, Minn.