Jacob Tanis Sr. settled here in 1910 and built Ideal Guernsey Cattle into a famous dairy herd; in the 1960s his son switched the farm to Aberdeen Angus beef, still raised here today, grass-fed and grain-finished with no hormones or antibiotics. In 1984 Jan Tanis-Jorritsma and her husband Ben opened Ideal Farm and Garden Centre in the farm's old bull barn, and their sons Benjamin and Kyle and Kyle's wife Lindsey now run the 200-acre farm with them; Kyle added a free-range chicken flock in 2020. The bakery makes apple cider donuts, 9-inch pies, artisan breads, tea breads and cookies, and the fields grow white and bicolor corn, tomatoes, peppers, melons and pumpkins.
What’s here
- Made here
- Apple cider donuts · 9-inch pies: harvest apple, apple cranberry, apple caramel walnut, pecan, pumpkin, peach praline, very berry and more · Artisan breads: garlic rosemary, pugliese, rustic olive, sourdough and multigrain · Tea breads, butter pound cake and cookies · Hand-decorated wreaths, kissing balls and roping
- Grown or raised here
- Aberdeen Angus beef · Free-range chicken · White and bicolor sweet corn · Tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, zucchini and peppers · Cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelon · Pumpkins · Field-grown mums and greenhouse-started plants · U-cut Christmas trees: blue spruce, white pine, Norway spruce and Canaan fir
- Sold here from other producers
- Jersey Girl cheese, Springhouse dairy, butter and yogurt · Whitehorse wines · Neil's salsas and sauces, jams, honey and pickles · Pot pies and ice cream · Farm-fresh eggs · Precut Fraser fir Christmas trees
This season
Hayrides and pumpkin picking run on fall weekends. U-cut Christmas trees open Nov 28, 2026 at the Decker Road field, with precut firs, decorated wreaths and holiday baking at the store. January to March the store is open Friday to Sunday for cider donuts, pies, soups, eggs and beef.
Details checked against Ideal Farm and Garden Centre’s own site on ; not yet confirmed by the business. Hours change, so check before you go. Spot a mistake? Tell us.