Valentine's Day Snowshoeing

Come join use on the farm for Valentines Day and enjoy a peaceful snowshoe walk on our scenic Nature Trails. If you do not have snowshoes, no worries. Our gift shop will have rental snowshoes. The farm has 3 miles of trails to explore. After you are done on our trails, warm up in the Visitor Center with a complimentary hot beverage and sit by the fire place with your favorite person Valentine’s Day spirit by spending some time in our learning kitchen learning how to make truffles from our staff.

Platinum Duets

Fan-favorite Phil Thompson joins his longtime music collaborator Tristana Ward for a night of unforgettable duets including “Endless Love” (Lionel Richie & Diana Ross), “Islands in the Stream” (Kenny & Dolly), “I Got You Babe” (Sonny & Cher), “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (Elton & Kiki Dee) and many more!

Dancing Wheels Company

If dance is an expression of the human spirit, then it is best expressed by people of all abilities. That is the fundamental belief behind the Dancing Wheels Company & School. Considered one of the premier arts and disabilities organizations in the U.S., Dancing Wheels is a professional, physically integrated dance company uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities. Mary Verdi-Fletcher, the first professional wheelchair dancer in the U.S., founded the Dancing Wheels Company in Cleveland in 1980.

Buckets and Boards

This is the reschedule date for the performance that was planned as part of the 2025 Austin ArtWorks Festival - free will donations at the door (suggested donation of $10/person)

Ball in the House

Ball in the House is an R&B/Soul/Pop a cappella group based out of Boston, MA, whose high energy shows have audiences?singing, dancing, even beatboxing along! With their extensive tour schedule (averaging 200 shows a year), Ball in the House has performed everywhere - from theaters to performing arts centers, fairs & festivals, to opening for some of the biggest acts in the world, such as The Beach Boys, The Jonas Brothers, The Temptations, Fantasia, Gladys Knight, Lionel Richie, and many others!

SPAMILTON: An American Parody

Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long running hit Forbidden Broadway and performed by a versatile cast of eight, Spamilton: An American Parody is a side-splitting new musical parody. A crash course of everyone’s favorite Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires, pop culture zings accompanied with hip-hop on the piano! After tearing it up in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, Spamilton: An American Parody will stage a singing, dancing, comedy revolution!

Thielen Meats of Pierz

Our renowned reputation extends globally, acclaimed for our exceptional, top-notch, fresh and smoked meats. Delight in our world-famous home-smoked bacon, recognized for its exceptional leanness and exquisite smoky flavor. Discover the numerous accolades we have garnered and celebrate our achievements. We are now proudly employee-owned, building upon the four generations of family ownership. Though we've added many great meat products over the years, our old-fashioned techniques have remained the same. We hand-cure all our hams and bacon in-house using the area's finest quality pork.

Schmidt's Meat Market

Schmidt’s has a long tradition of providing quality meats and services since 1947 when Gerhardt and Esther Schmidt founded it in Nicollet, Minnesota. Schmidt’s Meat Market, Inc. is proud to still be a family owned and operated old-fashioned meat market. It is Southern Minnesota’s largest and most complete meat center providing fresh retail meats, a wide variety of award-winning specialty sausages, deli meats, cheeses and salads, custom butchering and wild game processing.

McDonald's Meats

Today, we are known far and wide as The Jerky Stop. We carry 26 different varieties of jerky and over 60 varieties of fresh and smoked sausages. Part of our award-winning approach is to make our products from scratch in our own smokehouses and sausage kitchen located onsite. We’ve got the parking lot scents to prove it!
Who We Are

Lakes Processing

Lakes Processing was established in 1997, and has grown quite the reputation for quality and award winning meat products along with custom processing.