It’s Almost Harvest Time At The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

It’s almost harvest time around Central Minnesota, that is if you have a field to harvest something in. If you don’t, you’re not being left out. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is holding their annual Field Fest on September 6th from 10am to 3pm.  

This family friendly event will give you the chance to bring your kids out and let them get their hands dirty like so many others around Minnesota. Field Fest offers hands on harvesting of sugar beets, corn and potatoes.  

There will be much more to do than just dig in the dirt for the harvest, there will be food trucks, a beer garden, live entertainment and activities for all ages. 

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Visitors will be allowed to tour the crop plots and orchards at the facility. There will also be interactive games, exhibits and hands on activities where you can learn directly from Minnesota food producers and growers. These will be held in the KWS Tent. 

Other events that you can participate in include: 

• The beet weighing contest,  

• Make bouquets from flowers that you can grow at home 

• Learn more about the flower cutting industry 

• Learn how sugar beets move from seed to sugar to your store 

• Learn more about Ag Careers with the virtual reality Learning Lab Trailer 

• Tastings of the harvested food in the kitchen 

• Rootstock pop-up will be selling harvested foods in the Summer Kitchen 

There will also be a new event added to this year's Field Fest activities, the Celebrity Baking Showcase with Minnesota's own Zoe Francois who will also be holding a book signing while she is there as well.  

Tickets are $20 for non-members of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, kids 15 and under get in free. This is an event that members of the Arboretum are allowed to enter for free.  

You can register for the event here.