Visit Iowa Farms

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12/25/2025

Wishing you and yours well this holiday season from the Visit Iowa Farms team!

11/27/2025

🦃This Thanksgiving, we celebrate the Iowa farmers who make our tables possible.

From specialty crop growers to small farm operators, your year-round hard work fills our plates and brings communities together.

We’re grateful for your stewardship, resilience, and passion for agriculture.
Happy Thanksgiving! May your day be restful, warm, and full of good food.

11/27/2025

Southern Iowa tree farms open soon—perfect for kicking off your holiday traditions.

⭐Southwest Iowa
🌲 Sawtooth Farm, near Glenwood, is a family-owned choose-and-cut destination near the SW corner of the state!

⭐South Central Iowa
🎄 Cortum Farm & Co., near Indianola, is a small, diversified family farm offering choose-and-cut holiday traditions!
🎄 Dixon Tree Farm & Nursery, near Norwalk, is a choose-and-harvest trees + potted conifers for year-round planting!
🎄 G&R Plantation, near Osceola, is a choose-and-cut tree farm with multiple varieties + wreaths, garland, and more!
🌲 Harmony Christmas Tree Farm, near Stuart, has choose-and-cut trees, handmade wreaths, garland, shaking & wrapping services!
🎄 Walnut Ridge Farm, near Indianola, has 30,000+ trees—including firs, pines, and spruce! “You know it’s fresh when you cut it!”

⭐Southeast Iowa
🌲 Harvestville Farm, near Donnellson, is a beloved fall destination that continues the fun into the holiday season!
🌲 Honey Creek Timbers, near Morning Sun, is a long-standing family tradition since 1986 with Scotch Pine, White Pine, White Spruce, and Fraser Fir!
🌲 Myers Tree Farm & Potting Shed, near Sperry, offers choose-and-cut trees, pre-cut Fraser Fir, handmade wreaths, cemetery blankets, and a cozy gift shop!

You can learn more and get directions to each farm by visiting https://go.iastate.edu/IXPO3X

Don't see your farm listed? Visit https://www.visitiowafarms.org/node/add/listing to add you farm for FREE today!

11/26/2025

Central Iowa tree farms are preparing to open soon—here’s where to find fresh-cut evergreens.

⭐Central Iowa
🎄 Deal’s Orchard, near Jefferson, is known for apples year-round—but they also offer festive winter experiences and Christmas Trees!
🎄 Loki’s Garden, near Van Meter, is a charming wooded setting with perennials, trees, shrubs & seasonal offerings including Christmas Trees!
🎄Riverside Trees, near Duncombe, offers choose and cut Christmas Trees, freshly made wreaths, and more! Open weekends, beginning the day after Thanksgiving, and weekdays by appointment.
🎄 Strautman Tree Farm, near Cambridge, is one of Iowa’s largest choose-and-cut farms, with 90 acres of trees, fresh wreaths, greenery, and more!

⭐East Central Iowa
🌲 D & J Tree Farm, near Nichols, opens this Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), with the classic choose-and-cut tradition that can't be beat!
🌲Hainstock Christmas Tree Farm, near Delmar, offers a variety of choose and cut Christmas trees—from Scotch Pine, Fraser Fir, and White Pine!
🌲Hoffman Tree Farm, near Marion, offers beautiful, fresh, pre-cut trees that are stored inside their barn! Their Silent Night Fraser Fir has had the honor of being selected for the White House Christmas Tree!
🌲 Iowa Grown Market, near West Branch, is a seasonal, roadside market and greenhouse, offering farm-fresh produce and healthy, locally grown plants.
🌲Kelly Tree Farm, near Tipton, is a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm that has been in operation since 1990!
🌲Kroul Farms, near Mount Vernon, offers Fraser Fir Trees that are available for pre-order and scheduled delivery!
🌲Wickiup Hill Tree Farm, near Toddville, was founded in 1980 and has grown into one of the premier Christmas tree farms in the state of Iowa!

You can learn more and find locations for each farm by visiting https://go.iastate.edu/IXPO3X

Don't see your farm listed? Visit https://www.visitiowafarms.org/node/add/listing and add your farm for FREE today!

11/25/2025

If you’re in Northern Iowa, here are the local farms where you can choose your perfect Christmas tree this season:

⭐ Northwest Iowa:
🌲Country Pines Tree Farm, near Marcus, has over 2,800 trees—opening the day before Thanksgiving!
🌲Evergreen Acres, near Denison, is open daily from Oct 31–Dec 31. Choose & cut or have your tree cut for you!
🌲T&S Christmas Tree Farm, near Hawarden, is a second-generation farm, with choose & cut traditions since 1985!

⭐North Central Iowa
🎄 Aldrich Christmas Tree Farm, just south of Belmond, is a choose-and-cut farm with varieties for every home!
🎄 Fisher Tree Farm, near Forest City, is a choose & cut tree farm—from Scotch Pine, Colorado Blue Spruce, Balsam Fir, and more—plus pre-cut Fraser and White Pine!
🎄 Kragel Christmas Trees & Traditions, near Clear Lake, is a family-owned farm offering choose-and-harvest trees in a classic holiday setting!

⭐Northeast Iowa
🎄 POPS Produce, near Waukon, is a family-owned farm with small-town charm and seasonal offerings!

You can learn more and get directions to each location at https://go.iastate.edu/IXPO3X

Don't see your farm listed? Visit https://www.visitiowafarms.org/node/add/listing and add your farm for FREE today!

11/20/2025

🎄 IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS TREE SEASON IN IOWA! 🎄

Many of Iowa’s choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms will begin opening within the next week—just in time for families to kick off their holiday traditions!

Whether you love hiking through rows of evergreens, sipping hot cocoa in a barn, or picking out a pre-cut tree with the perfect shape… Iowa farms are getting ready to welcome you!

Looking for a farm near you? Stay tuned! We’ll be highlighting Christmas tree farms across every region of Iowa so you can find the perfect spot.

Get ready to support local farms, make memories, and bring home the smell of fresh Iowa evergreens. 🌲✨

Find a Christmas tree farm today: https://go.iastate.edu/IXPO3X

11/09/2025

Do you have an agritourism business in Iowa?

Whether it’s a Christmas tree farm, pumpkin patch, winery, orchard, or u-pick flower field—we want to help people find you!

✨ List your farm on Visit Iowa Farms and get discovered by families, travelers, and adventure-seekers looking for their next Iowa experience.

It’s free, easy, and helps us grow agritourism across the state!

👉 Add your farm today: https://www.visitiowafarms.org/node/add/listing

10/23/2025

Get ready for the 2025 National Agricultural Marketing Summit!

Join us November 12–14, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana for three days of collaboration, innovation, and learning. The Summit brings together farmers, food businesses, researchers, and market professionals from across the country to share ideas that strengthen local food systems and agricultural markets.

The 2025 schedule is live—explore plenary sessions and success stories from across U.S. agriculture.

💸 Early bird registration is open through November 1
🎓 Scholarships available
🏨 Hotel block closes November 1

Learn more and register ➡️ https://www.regcytes.extension.iastate.edu/agsummit/

09/25/2025

Join our very own Kenday Meyer on October 15, 2025, as she discusses simple, actionable ways to attract visitors to your business and boost profits using agricultural experiences.

This virtual coffee break will be held from 9-10am CST!

To join via Zoom, you can register at https://ihcc.edu/coffeebreak

You can also join them at the REC located at 15330 Truman St., Ottumwa, IA 52501. To RSVP, email Marissa Long at [email protected] or call her at 641-683-5312

You can also watch with one of the local sponsors. You can RSVP through that sponsor: IHCC, SBDC, Powered by SBA, Albia Chamber Main Street, Bloomfield Main Street, Chariton Chamber of Commerce, Davis County Development Corp, Fairfield Chamber of Commerce, GO PIP, Keokuk County Economic Development, Mahaska Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Ottumwa, Promoting Appanoose & Centerville Together, The Exchange, Villages of Van Buren County, Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

09/18/2025

An upcoming webinar from the Urban Agriculture Program with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will address common questions for aspiring and experienced beekeepers. The Oct. 9 webinar will be led by beekeeper and educator Julia McGuire.