Jim’s Apple Farm

This is the same place as Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store, but they actually do have a lot of apples here. And Apple Pie. Really really good homemade apple pie! And other kinds of pie too.
In the fall they have pumpkins here, the best deal around. A low set price for any size pumpkin.
Did I mention the really good apple pie here? Made fresh each day from the owners dad. Nice family ran business here, multi-​generational.

All rightie– we went when it wasn’t back to front to back people. It was SO much better! I could actually make selections and take time to stew over which would be better «dark chocolate chipotle or milk chocolate chipotle?» Um, neither, orange chocolate!

thousands and thousands of candies, sodas, there’s homemade pastries and I heard they now have homemade fudge. they also did some construction on this place in late 2015 and made it a bit bigger.

Totally worth the visit. I don’t mind navigating through all the busy aisles and children just to find my favorite overseas/​nostalgia candy. They have a great system for sorting the candy so it’s easy to find just what you are looking for. They have a wide variety of sodas that are fun to look through too. The baked goods have a smaller variety than what you’d like to see and even less meat snacks (ex. Beef sticks and jerky).
What would really top this place off is if they’d add on a section where they could serve scooped ice cream! That would be amazing. Also more seating outside would be great for nice days.
It takes a long while to look through all their product if you’ve never been there but if you have it’s easy to be in and out. Even on the busy days. They always have staff set up on every register available to keep it running smoothly. Bring the whole family and bring all your friends!

So this store is an oasis in the middle of nowhere. My wife and I have been here a few times and I can honestly say, its an amazing experience every time. From the assortment of candies, to the different types of soda, to even the homemade pies ready to eat, you will not be disappointed. They even sell pumpkins and different types of squash during the fall, so don’t miss out! I think Jim’s will be a regular stop for my family whenever we go to Minneapolis.

Such an awesome no matter how old you are. Love going here and never leave unsatisfied.
They have unique candy, homemade treats, fresh apples, games, toys, jerky, smoked meats, cheese curds and so much more. Neat trip to take with our kids as well.
I recommend going in July when they open and also in the fall in October :)

Okay, this place is crazy!!!
If you haven’t been here before, you simply MUST come here! I didn’t know there was such a thing as bacon flavored soda. Yes, they have it. They have EVERYTHING!
I won’t bore everyone with more words and more photos. Other people have already done it. But you must come here if you have the chance.
–Daddy Maxx Retro

Full Review here:
Heaven. That’s the word my husband would use to describe the big yellow barn. Born with a prominent sweet tooth, which has grown with him into his 30s, he is a sucker for anything made of 98% sugar. I was almost more excited to take him to Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store than I was my five– and two-​year olds. A kid at heart, indeed. Our family took a Sunday morning drive to Jim’s Apple Farm, which is now also Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store, located in Jordan just south of Chaska. (For chillier weather days, Zap Arcade is also in Jordan, so check out that blog post too.) It’s impossible to miss the candy barn for two main reasons: 1) It sits directly on Hwy 169 and 2) Yellow painted fencing lines a full mile of the highway leading up to the also-​brightly-​painted big ol’ yellow barn.
Walking in this building makes the diabetic in me cower into the fetal position, but so long as I bring my will power and some cash, everyone in our family has a wonderfully delicious time here. Selling candies from all over the world, soda bottles in unique varieties, full tables of flavored licorice and taffy, and of course the classic stuff you used to find at the local corner gas station when you were kids (yes, they have candy cigarettes), this place will never fail to surprise you!
Jim’s Apple Farm, now Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store, started out as just that — an apple farm. Growing apples was the main family business until 2005, when Robert Wagner decided to embrace a couple bad apple harvests and convert the barn into what could probably be deemed the most unique retail space in Minnesota. While still a family business that bases its sales on word of mouth and straight cash, they are succeeding in modern day sans a website, a credit card machine, and — the weirdest one of all — a phone number. The big yellow barn sells more than 3,000 varieties of candy sectioned off by type. They have areas designated to sour candy, gumballs, licorice, gummies, European candy, hard candy, taffies, suckers, caramel, character candy and more. Not a fan of sugar? The barn is also known for its jigsaw puzzles, jerkeys, syrup, meats, salsas and pumpkin prices (only $ 3.98 for any size pumpkin… and they have some BIG ones!). Of course, the one weakness this diabetic can’t fight off is the homemade apple pies. Yup, they’re warm and made minutes before you buy them by their 88-​year old baker, who also happens to be the father of the owner.
The barn is huge, but literally every inch is covered in colorful displays of temptation. The massive parking lot, painted murals, comical billboards, and mile-​long yellow fencing lining Hwy 169 is apparently the only advertising this place needs. While it’s not open year-​round, Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store sure know how to put the sweetest of icings on two of the greatest seasons Minnesota offers.
Fit for what ages?
«Like a kid in a candy store» is more than an expression at Jim’s. If you can eat, you will enjoy the barn. Grab a shopping basket and go to town collecting fun variations of old-​school candy with your kiddos, from candy buttons to Necco wafers. Obviously, know your child’s sugar tolerance and maybe set some limits, but after that boring conversation is had, go to town and have fun! Weekends can be incredibly busy, so hang on to little ones, but I don’t think I can even set an age limit on this one because kids of all ages will love it, including my 34-​year old hubby.
How much are we talkin?
Gas money from your house to Jordan + however much you spend on sugary goodness should about cover it. Everything is priced good n’ cheap, but this is a CASH ONLY business and the ATM has a $ 3 fee if you need to use it. My caramel apple pie cost $ 12 and my son’s gumball machine was $ 5. Small price to pay for the size of the smiles they created. Candy, fudge, popcorn, and sodas range quite widely in price, but seriously… it’s just… so fun.
Want some tips?
Most important tip: Bring Cash. They have six registers run by sweet family-​business relatives who are obviously used to saying, «Sorry, we don’t take credit cards, but the ATM is over there.» Weekends can be insane with body-​to-​body people, but weekdays are fantastic! Grab a basket as you walk in. Do not grab a pumpkin as you walk in. They work on the honor system, so you simply tell your cashier how many pumpkins you’re buying and pick them up on the way to your car. A minor point, but something worth mentioning, is to check the expiration dates on some of the candies. Obviously this is unintentional, but you can’t have thousands of varieties of candies and keep them all up to date all the time, so just keep an eye out.

I don’t get it… everything online points to this place being open. Reviews written just last month… BUT:
I made the trek yesterday from Minneapolis to where my navigation said to go, but all I found was a giant yellow building with no signage other than «closed». It looked dilapidated and run down. Did it close for good??? Did I find the wrong giant yellow building in Jordan??? Please can someone tell me what happend???
*Update* I received a message saying this business is seasonal. PLEASE, I implore whoever runs the Facebook, just add this info, it’s not difficult. Even paying some kid to create a simple Web page isn’t that costly. Heck, there are point — and — click sites that allow even trained monkeys to create a page. Will try to visit this summer.

Insanity. This place gets huge points from me for having a crazy array of hard to find items. For example, my favorite caramel chocolate digestives from the UK, and a wild assortment of liquorice from Europe, including liquorice Mentos (delicious — how did I never notice these while in Europe!). What you’re wanting, you can probably find, although a bit less focus on Asian items than there is on American/​European items. Not to mention walls of sodas, in every flavor imaginable, including bacon. Which… doesn’t sound good.
This is basically a place that should make your teeth hurt as soon as you walk in the door. Some of the prices seem high, some seem cheap, but make sure you have cash, as they don’t accept credit card.

This was my second time here this year. First time was middle of the weekday with a colleague driving back to St Paul from Mankato for work. There weren’t many people in there which allowed us to soak in the crazy take me back to when I was a kid in a candy shop time. It’s almost overwhelming how much they have; candy from the 1970’s to today, different flavors of bottled pop, chocolate galore, apples, pies, the list goes on. Today I brought my family and being that it was a Saturday at 1pm, the placed was crammed. Almost obnoxiously busy but we knew it might be now that fall is here. As long as there’s no screaming babies or rude people, the line goes pretty fast. All and all it was a good day. Definitely worth a once a year trip from the cities. Oh and bring your checkbook and/​or cash. They don’t take credit nor do they have a phone or a website.

This the biggest candy place ever — more than the apple farm. Hundreds of sodas, hundreds of candies, salty/​sweet everything you want. You can’t miss the big yellow sign and fence on the way to Jordan. If it is sweet — you can find it here.
PS no credit cards so bring cash.

A great stop along the highway. It’s hard to miss the bright yellow picket fence and expanding barn. Don’t be fooled that it’s just candy and apples. There is a nice selection of pies and crackers and an Energy Drink from Japan. Hundreds of sodas from small family run companies you never heard of. I am a Root Beer fan, (as in real root beer, not root beer flavored pop) and Jim’s has about 114 choices so far. The check out lines move quickly. This is sort of a trip back to older days, no website, no scanners, no credit cards (there is an ATM), smiling employees and polkas on the system. Worth a stop if only to see and it will be difficult to not buy anything.

Stopped at this place for the first time after passing it a zillion times on our many trips to SW Minnesota.
It would have gotten 5 stars, however it doesn’t take credit cards-​credit card acceptance is a must, people buy more when you accept credit cards! Owners of Jim’s Apple Farm –message me & I will get you accepting credit cards! That’s what I do for a living.
This place is amazing. Tables & tables of candy, licorice. Salt water taffy, popcorn, syrup, candy cigarettes, gummy bears & the glass soda pop selection was overwhelming. This will now be a stop we make every time we make our trip to Southern Mn.

Hammer is repulsed.
Yet, he cannot look away
from forbidden fruit.
With the exception of my niece and nephew, I do not like kids. I also am not a huge fan of candy. Jim’s Apple Farm has a ton of kids and a ton of candy, but I am still enamored based on my first visit today. OK, truth be told — I have a sweet tooth that is a fiend (I just do a pretty good job of suppressing it). If there is candy at the office or at a party, I am all over it like a gluttonous raven. I just hardly ever buy it myself for my own at-​home consumption. Figure I should try and limit my addictions. I’m like a chocoholic, but for booze.
Must have been some time since I drove this far south on 169, because I am pretty darned sure I have never seen this place before. It is literally impossible to miss. It is a gigantic yellow building on the west side of the highway not too far from Shakopee. Some might call it an eyesore.
The only other candy store I can recall having been in the last ten years was Candyland in Downtown St. Paul. I can’t speak as to prices, but this place blows Candyland out of the water when it comes to selection. 150 different root beers, probably 50 different kinds of saltwater taffy, and aisles upon aisles of product that will keep your dentist rolling in bank.
When I walked in, I started grabbing stuff left and right like the plague was coming and candy was the remedy. Thought to myself: pull yourself together, Hammer, or you will be headed for both a stomach stapling and a root canal. Whittled my selections down to a small container of pineapple saltwater taffy and a bottle of Chicago Root Beer.
Minus one huge star for this place not taking credit cards. I almost never carry cash and had to pay a $ 2.65 fee to use their ATM. Just does not seem like a very good business decision to not take credit cards. Sure, the credit card company gets a small percentage of the sale, but people are going to buy a shit ton more if they could put it on plastic. I may have gone with all of the stuff that I initially grabbed if I could have swiped my Visa for it at the register. Maybe I am lucky that Jim’s does not take credit cards. I ate the entire damn container of taffy in my car before I even got back to the city limits. Thanks for saving me from me, Jim — I’m still going to give you some grief for it, though.

Imagine every childhood dream where you are running through fields of your favorite candies – including the ones you had yet to encounter. As you frolic gaily, there is no wicked dentist, there is no parent saying no, and you are left to bask in the glory of everything you could ever want being at your (by that point) chubby little fingertips.
That dream became a reality this weekend as we ventured to Jim’s Apple Farm. What started off as a quest to find diet root beer, soon turned into a 5 year olds fantasy land. We lingered along the aisle, reminiscing about childhood candies, took pictures of the bacon candy displays, and felt our thighs growing at the mere sight.
Leaving was difficult, but we made our way out with some homemade nut rolls, some razzles, and the satisfaction of knowing a place like this exists!

My sister and I were visiting my father in Chaska, MN and he insisted that we stop by Jim’s Apple Farm and «Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store». Boy they aren’t kidding. This place is massive and they have every candy, I mean every candy imaginable. International candy as well as candy I thought was discontinued. Plus, over 100 different brands of root beer. It inspired a pretty competitive root beer taste testing that evening.

Thanks to Unilocal on my apple orchard search we decided to go to Jim’s Apple Farm after our trip to Sweetland Orchard. The call of Root Beer and large varieties of candy can make my children very persuasive.
Holy crow! I admit to having a slight sweet tooth, however my eyes really lit up when I saw all that candy. I think it was the candy from (seemingly) all over the globe that did it for me. Not a proponent of influencing children to smoke, but I nearly bought the kids the candy cigarettes and gum cigarettes. Ah the memories.
As we were walking along, I nearly forgot they had apples. It was nice to sample some that the other orchards didn’t have or have ready to sell. We chose the caramel apples instead along with some cool sodas and root beer.
On that note of sodas and root beer, wow! I had no idea there were so many soft drinks still in existence. I’m not a regular pop drinker, but I certainly felt the need to stock up on all those sweet and bubbly, liquid treats. My children nodding their approvals.
For Jim’s Apple Farm as a whole, No real complaints all in all, however the mob of people was nearly overwhelming at a couple of spots in the store. I really had to fight the urge to act like a herded cow. «Moo!»

Jim’s Apple Farm: a giant yellow barn of candy filled mirth. Here you will find tons of candy, including many retro and regional brands as well as favorites from Canada and Europe. You will also find: many many many varieties of soda (including obscure root beers), applewood smoked beef jerky, beef sticks, bacon and sausage, fresh baked pies, some boss peanut brittle and nut logs, and, of course, apples.
Jim’s clearly has some kind of luddite thing going on. No web site at all, and conflicting stories on whether the phone number answered, if it exists at all. So… bring cash, and be ready as the big yellow building looms on the southbound side of Hwy. 169 (northbound visitors will have to make a U turn past the place). Prices are all over the map. Some things are outrageously overpriced, while others are a steal. The jerky and bacon are a steal considering the quality. Don’t forget seasonal hours apply, so if you are looking to visit in 2013, then December 1 is your absolute last chance.
Well worth a stop, if only to gawk at the sheer spectacle of it all.

I’ve seen Jim’s apple farm on TV several times, and finally decided to take a motorcycle ride down and check it out! It was everything I expected and more.
Not only are they an apple farm, they also sell soda pop, candy and puzzles. I don’t know how they put the 4 items together?
First of all, they sell a variety of freshly baked apple pies that are delicious!
2^nd they sell soda pop! They carry over 120 different brands of root beer. The shelves are stacked floor to ceiling. They also stock other well know flavors. I loved checking out the odd flavors of soda pop, like pumpkin pie, sweet corn, bacon, ranch dressing, and key lime pie.
3^rd they sell candy. Many candies that I haven’t seen since I was a kid. They carry over 40 different varieties and flavors of licorice. Some of the oldies that I noticed were wax lips, fizzies, candy cigarretts, Zotts, Marathon bar, and much more.
4^th they sell puzzles. They have a very large display of puzzles for sale. I wasn’t much interested in the puzzles, but there were a lot of them!
This store is a fun place to stop, your kids will love it if you dare take them! I say that only because it will be hard to get them out of there. Jim’s Apple Farm is located on Hwy. 169 near Jordan, MN. Approximately ½ hour south of the Twin Cities.