Farm at the Arb
Visit the historic Red Barn, discover the past, present and future of agriculture, explore Minnesota farm crops, and get tips on growing your own fruits and vegetables!
Sustainable Horticulture Training Program
Red Barn
Tashjian Bee & Pollinator Discovery Center
Vegetable Garden/Market Garden
Fruitful Way
Sweasy Learning Shelter
Crop Walk
Scenic Overlook
Garden for Pollinators
Garden Gallery
Gathering Lawns
Sustainable Horticulture Training Program
Apples, Grapes & Crops of the Future
History
Land
The Arboretum’s Red Barn and Farm is on original tribal homeland of the Dakota people - as is the rest of the Arboretum property and the surrounding region. It became the farmstead of early Swiss immigrant farmers Theodore & Sophie Bost, who cleared the first fields beginning in the 1850s.
Barn
The historic Red Barn was built a century ago around 1920 by the Williams family. They had 32 cows and ran a small dairy farm here from the 1920s to the 1960s. The existing Red Barn on the site was built in 1920.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota purchased the property in 1968.
