A farm with real retail infrastructure - a heated shop, wagon rides, delivery, and curbside pickup - but this record could not find any hours, days of operation, season dates, or pricing at all, making a phone call more essential here than almost anywhere else in this batch.
Hinkemeyer stands out for the retail infrastructure it’s built around the seasonal tree business - a heated store called the “Jingle Shop,” wagon rides, a campfire, and both delivery and curbside pickup for pre-cut trees. That’s a more developed setup than several other farms in this batch, and the delivery and curbside options in particular are genuinely convenient if a trip to the fields themselves isn’t in the cards this year.
This is the thinnest scheduling picture in the entire batch. No hours, no days of operation, and no season start or end date turned up in any source reviewed. The farm’s own website apparently directs visitors to a separate “plan your trip” page for exactly this information, but that page’s content wasn’t captured during this research. That’s a meaningfully different situation than a farm that simply hasn’t posted 2026 dates yet - here, even the basic weekly pattern (which days, what hours) is unknown.
Species-wise, the farm offers a solid standard lineup: Fraser fir, balsam fir, Norway pine, white pine, and Scotch pine. The heated store is a genuine amenity worth noting for anyone visiting in cold conditions, and the wagon rides and campfire suggest at least some family-outing character to a visit, even without more detail on how the whole experience is structured.
As with the schedule, no pricing information was found for Hinkemeyer - not a per-foot rate, not a flat price, nothing. Combined with the missing hours, this means the honest, responsible version of this page can tell you what species are available and what services exist, but genuinely cannot tell you when to go or what it will cost.
Hinkemeyer looks like a farm with more retail sophistication than many others here - delivery and curbside pickup aren’t common features in this batch - but this record simply doesn’t have enough scheduling or pricing detail to plan a visit around without calling first. Treat that phone call as a required step, not an optional extra, before you build any part of your day around this farm.
Most of the other thin records in this directory are missing one or two pieces - a price, a season date, a species list. Hinkemeyer is missing the entire scheduling picture: no hours, no days of operation, nothing. That’s different in kind, not just degree, from a farm that simply hasn’t posted its 2026 dates yet. It means this page cannot responsibly tell you to “go on a weekend” or “avoid Mondays,” because none of that pattern could be found. The delivery and curbside pickup options are genuinely useful precisely because they sidestep the scheduling question - you don’t need to know when the farm is open to the public if you’re arranging a pre-cut tree to be delivered or picked up curbside instead.
Not documented at all. The farm's own site directs visitors to a separate 'plan your trip' page for current hours and the event schedule, and that page's content wasn't captured in this research.
Not documented in the record.
Not documented in the record.
Not documented in the record.
A heated retail store is documented, which is a genuine comfort consideration in Minnesota winter conditions, though nothing else about accessibility is documented.
Skip planning any specific visit day or time around this farm until you've called or found its current 'plan your trip' page directly, since no hours, days open, season dates, or pricing were found anywhere in this research.
Located in Rice, Benton County, in central Minnesota - Turck's Trees in Litchfield, also in central Minnesota, is roughly an hour's drive away and worth comparing.
Not documented anywhere found in this research. The farm's own site refers visitors to a separate 'plan your trip' page for current hours and the event schedule, which wasn't captured here - call the farm directly for current information.
Not published in any source found. Ask directly when you call.
Yes - both delivery and curbside pickup are offered for pre-cut trees, according to the farm's site.
Fraser fir, balsam fir, Norway pine, white pine, and Scotch pine.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the farm before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes. It's cut-your-own and choose-and-cut (staff cuts it for you).
12675 22nd Ave NE, Rice, MN 56367, in Benton County. It is one of 2 farms we track in Central Minnesota.
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hinkemeyerstreefarm.com
Checked September 2026.