The land at 4078 Coffeetown Road has been farmed since the early 1800s. The stone bank barn that still stands on the property was built in 1817 — a Pennsylvania forebay Standard barn, hand-hewn oak timbers, principal rafter roof system. The farm was first developed by the Butz family and passed through several hands before Frank and Mary Czaczara took ownership in the early 1900s. Under Mary Czaczara and John Bobenic, the operation grew to a dairy herd of sixty to eighty head. Milk went to the Lehigh Valley Dairy Cooperative, and for a period the farm ran independently as Ideal Dairy.

After Mary’s passing, her daughter Marie (Czaczara) Dean took over. She worked the farm alongside her husband Ted Sr. and raised two sons on the same land — Ted Jr. and Tom. When the dairy herd was sold in the 1970s, the family transitioned to crops and kept the buildings, the acreage, and the name. The land has never left the family.

In 2016, Ted Jr. and Tom began growing Green Giant Arborvitae as a way to sustain the farm and preserve what it stands for. The whole Dean family — Ted Sr., Marie, Ted Jr., Tom, and three children — has had a hand in keeping this place going. The nursery wasn’t started to build a business. It was started to keep the farm alive.