Squash Blossom Farm

Squash Blossom Farm is a licensed farm winery and historic 1910 farmstead in Oronoco, Minnesota, just outside Rochester. The property is being restored through permaculture, with gardens, chickens, goats, donkeys, geese, bees, and guineas all contributing to the farm's work. The winery specializes in mead, wine made from honey. Roger and Susan began keeping bees and making mead for themselves, then pursued a farm winery license during the pandemic and built a mead production room and tasting room inside the barn, largely by hand using salvaged and repurposed materials. Their meads are made with honey from their own hives and from The Bee Shed, plus locally grown fruits and berries. The lineup includes traditional mead, melomels such as raspberry and elderberry-aronia, methaglyn with ginger, session meads on tap, and a pear mead called Perry. Visitors can taste mead by the glass, taster, or flight in the barn tasting room or on the outdoor mead patio, with charcuterie and light fare available. The farm also hosts wood-fired pizza nights with live local music.

Written by Ava from public sources. Not written or reviewed by the winery.