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Apple gadgetsThere's one place to pick your own fruit in Wheeler. Another 1 is within 25 miles. Wheeler is about 58 miles east of Saint Paul, MN.
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Nothing is typically ripe around here right now. Next up: apples from early September.
Based on the typical seasons for Wisconsin, adjusted for the local frost dates (last spring frost around May 10). Crops ripen with the weather, not the calendar, so confirm with the farm the day before.
The median last frost near Wheeler is May 10; the first fall frost arrives around September 29. That leaves about 140 frost-free days for the farms. Fall comes early here, so apple and pumpkin picking near Wheeler often winds down by the middle of October.
Frost dates: median of NOAA's 1991–2020 climate normals at the weather station closest to Wheeler, 11 miles away. The actual dates in Wheeler can shift by a few weeks from one year to the next.
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The old-school gadget that turns a bag of picked apples into pie filling in minutes.
Apple gadgetsWe know of one farm in Wheeler: Conklin Tree Farms. Within 25 miles there are 1 more.
The farms here list christmas trees most often. Each farm posts its own picking days, and they change from year to year.
Around May 10 in a typical year, and the first fall frost comes around September 29. Both are median dates from NOAA's 1991–2020 climate normals for the weather station nearest Wheeler, so a given year can be a few weeks earlier or later.
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