Fancy a dance? Miss the nights of going out to a club with friends? The glory days don’t have to be over - come party hard and still be in bed by 10pm.

No kids allowed, there might be swears in these songs.

Live Music
6pm - DJ Johnny Pop (21+)

Food Truck
Philippines Cuisine

FREE EVENT

Special Offering
Professional Photography Session
with Chelsea
$100 per 20 minute session

Couples - Families - Large Groups
Capture your loved ones among the apple trees.

Fingers crossed for beautiful weather and a lovely spring day at the orchard with your mum, or your kids, or your besties!

Live Music
2:30pm - Macy Zawacki

Food Truck
Philippines Cuisine
Ecker’s Farm Plate Charcuterie

The beer garden is winding down and we need to drain our taps! Would you be so kind to come and help us!?!
$4 and $5 beers and hard ciders until they’re gone!

Last chance for live music, food trucks, and train rides before the weather chills us out and forces us in!
But don’t worry, you’ll still be able to buy those apple pies and caramel apples on weekends in Novebember!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Macy Zawacki - 1pm
Food Truck: Monkey Business Grilled Cheese

The beer garden is winding down and we need to drain our taps! Would you be so kind to come and help us!?!
$4 and $5 beers and hard ciders until they’re gone!

Last chance for live music, food trucks, and train rides before the weather chills us out and forces us in!
But don’t worry, you’ll still be able to buy those apple pies and caramel apples on weekends in Novebember!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Winona’s Dead - 2pm
Food Truck: Monkey Business Grilled Cheese & Taco Town
Coffee Truck: Bee’s Knees

We’re taking you back in time with our vintage apple press! It’s harder than it looks and now’s your chance to give it a go: manually press apples (with the help of our staff) and taste the freshest, sweetest, apple juice!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Andy Hughes - 1pm
Food Truck: Smoke & Chrome

Weekend Highlight: Packer Game at 3:25pm

We’re taking you back in time with our vintage apple press! It’s harder than it looks and now’s your chance to give it a go: manually press apples (with the help of our staff) and taste the freshest, sweetest, apple juice!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Josie - 2pm
Food Truck: Smoke & Chrome & Chef’s Table
Coffee Truck: Bee’s Knees

Weekend Highlight: Press-Your-Own Apples!

Did you “Hoot It Up” like a seasoned Hooty Hooter yesterday? You know we all did, and now we need a day to chill out, dry up, and choke down some “Vitamin G” (delicious, Greasy food)…

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: River Run - 1pm
Food Truck: McLaos Yummies Concessions

Weekend Highlight: Packer Game at 3:25pm

Enjoy the Violating Sounds of the Honeycrisp Hootenanny 2025
70's Disco is alive and well at this year's Hoot!

Day Stage Music: Iron Still, Sleeping Jesus, Prank Williams, Nicholas David
Tent Stage Music: Lojo, Roma Ranson, The Iowans, Horace Green, "TCB-Y" The Country's Best Yogurt

It's the best family, high school, college friend reunion of your year, let's get groovy, baby.

Bring on the dirndls and lederhosen, it’s Ecktoberfest at Ecker’s Apple Farm!
Take a train ride through the orchard, play a round of Hammerschlagen, and listen to some live music!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Ditch Lilies - 2pm
Food Truck: Island Vibe

Bring on the dirndls and lederhosen, it’s Ecktoberfest at Ecker’s Apple Farm!
Take a train ride through the orchard, play a round of Hammerschlagen, and listen to some live music!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Bruce & Virgil - 1pm
Food Truck: Island Vibe & Monkey Business
Coffee Truck: Bee’s Knees

Weekend Highlight: Hammerschlagen

It’s cold, then it’s hot, then it’s freezing; it’s that tricky time of year when the weather keeps you spinning round your wardrobe. Wear your flip flops and flannels out to Ecker’s for a weekend of tepid fall fun.

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Allison Sky - 2pm
Food Truck: Reubens and Things

It’s cold, then it’s hot, then it’s freezing; it’s that tricky time of year when the weather keeps you spinning round your wardrobe. Wear your flip flops and flannels out to Ecker’s for a weekend of tepid fall fun.

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Push and Turn - 2pm
Food Truck: Reubens and Things & Taco Town

It’s the last $5 Friday of our season! The nights are starting to creep earlier into the days, catch our last game of Trivia and final Volleyball of the season!

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm

Trivia: 5:30pm

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League

We’ve always felt loved by our neighbors over the river in Winona. The students that visit the orchard in their early 20’s become the families that keep coming back later in life. Whether you’re rolling through visiting your new college Freshman or you’re a regular townie, Ecker’s will be a bumpin’ place to stop on Winona State Parents’ Weekend!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Mike Munson - 2pm
Food Truck: Smoke N’ Chrome BBQ

Weekend Highlight: Packer v. Viking Game - 12pm

We’ve always felt loved by our neighbors over the river in Winona. The students that visit the orchard in their early 20’s become the families that keep coming back later in life. Whether you’re rolling through visiting your new college Freshman or you’re a regular townie, Ecker’s will be a bumpin’ place to stop on Winona State Parents’ Weekend!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Annie & the Bang Bang - 2pm
Food Truck: Smoke N’ Chrome BBQ & Taco Town

Weekend Highlight: Yoga with Sarah - 11am ($5)

Winona State Parents’ Weekend is here; put on your purple and bring your parents to your favorite orchard!

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm

Food Truck: 6B’s Artisan Ovens
Trivia: 5:30pm

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League

There’s never been a better time to PICK-YOUR-OWN Apples! September is the month to get pickin’ on that Honeycrisp while enjoying the sounds of guitars and banjos floating across Hog’s Back Brew Farm, Ecker’s beer garden. Then head over to our best buddy, Farmer Ryan’s to pick your fav pumpkin from the patch at Schwertel Family Farms!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Lojo - 2pm
Food Truck: Betty’s Tacos

There’s never been a better time to PICK-YOUR-OWN Apples! September is the month to get pickin’ on that Honeycrisp while enjoying the sounds of guitars and banjos floating across Hog’s Back Brew Farm, Ecker’s beer garden. Then head over to our best buddy, Farmer Ryan’s to pick your fav pumpkin from the patch at Schwertel Family Farms!

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Josie - 2pm
Food Truck: Betty’s Tacos & Monkey Business Grilled Cheese
Coffee Truck: Bee’s Knees

Another Friday afternoon, another chance to bask in the glow of fall. The sun is starting to set a little soon each day so make the most of your Friday nights at Ecker’s!

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm

Food Truck: 6B’s Artisan Ovens
Trivia: 5:30pm

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League

The kids are back in school and you’ve got a hankering for everything fall (even though it’s probably still roasting outside). Pop into Ecker’s for a game of corn hole, a cold drink, and a dreamy, creamy caramel apple.

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: The B-Sides - 1pm
Food Truck: Chef’s Table

Weekend Highlights: Yoga with Sarah - 11am ($5) and Packer Game - 3:25pm

The kids are back in school and you’ve got a hankering for everything fall (even though it’s probably still roasting outside). Pop into Ecker’s for a game of corn hole, a cold drink, and a dreamy, creamy caramel apple.

Orchard & Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Ghostland Radio - 2pm
Food Truck: Chef’s Table & Tacomiendo

Weekend Highlight: Schwertel’s END OF SUMMER BASH - Redline Outlaw Band: 6pm
Just walk on over through the parking lot to keep the party going!

The kids are back in school and you’ve got a hankering for everything fall (even though it’s probably still roasting outside). Pop into Ecker’s for a game of corn hole, a cold drink, and a dreamy, creamy caramel apple.

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm ($5 Friday - All Beer and Hard Cider Taps)

Trivia: 5:30pm
Food Truck: Philippines Cuisine

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League

It’s Labor Day, the last day of summer, you’ve worked hard all year, now let’s party, for the last time…

Orchard and Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: The Kris Risch Family Band - 2pm
Food Truck: Tacomiendo

It’s Labor Day Weekend, you’ve worked hard all year, now let’s party!
Train Rides, Caramel Apples, Apple Pie, ***New: Build Your Own Picnic

Orchard and Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Logan Hofschulte - 2:30pm
Food Truck: Betty’s Tacos

Weekend Highlight: Yoga with Sarah - 11am in the beer garden ($5)

It’s Labor Day Weekend, you’ve worked hard all year, now let’s party!
Train Rides, Caramel Apples, Apple Pie, ***New: Build Your Own Picnic

Orchard and Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Simon Cropp Band - 2pm
Food Trucks: Betty’s Tacos & 6B’s Artisan Ovens

$5 Fridays are Back! All tap beers and hard ciders are just 5 bucks!

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm

Trivia: 5:30pm
Food Truck: 2pm - Philippines Cuisine

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League

Ecker’s is the fall gathering spot for friends and families, but would you believe the number of first dates and marriage proposals that romantically unfold here at the orchard?!

Orchard and Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Spies of Good Report - 2pm
Food Trucks: Monkey Business Grilled Cheese

Weekend Highlight: Awkward Family Photos
Chelsea Krings, a professional photographer, will be on site offering up ridiculous poses for those of you who embrace the cringe of the 90’s portrait. Put a silly spin on your holiday photo and a smile on the faces of your loved ones.

Ecker’s is the fall gathering spot for friends and families, but would you believe the number of first dates and marriage proposals that romantically unfold here at the orchard?!

Orchard and Beer Garden Hours: 12pm to 6pm

Live Music: Crooked Willow - 1pm
Food Trucks: Monkey Business Grilled Cheese & Tacomiendo
Packer Game: 3pm

Weekend Highlight: Singles Event - 4pm
Our lovely Singles Coordinator, Jaslin, will be directing low key games for those looking to connect with new faces in the area. More information to follow from Cupid.

$5 Fridays are Back! All tap beers and hard ciders are just 5 bucks!

Orchard Hours: 12pm to 6pm
Beer Garden Hours: 2pm to 8pm

Trivia: 5:30pm
Food Truck: 2pm - Philippines Cuisine

Friday Night Highlights: $5 Beers and Hard Ciders
6pm: Volleyball League