“We’ve always grown a little bit of everything: Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potatoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, acorn squash, sweet corn, broccoli and cauliflower.”ĭaniel went to Middlesex County College and has some real estate training as well. The Skebas grow sweet corn on about 50 acres but the rest of their land is used for other vegetables, including soybeans. According to many of them, my corn is the best.” “Most of the other farmers, when they run out of corn for their road stands, they come here. “We’re kind of famous for our sweet corn,” he said. What makes Skeba Farm unique is his large corn growing operation, Joe said. The street is named for his late mother, Agnes, he said, who passed away three years ago at age 95. He’s sold off some of the land over time and there’s even a ‘Skeba Way’ in the nearby housing development. “When my grandfather bought this farm in 1912, he paid about $9,000 for it, which was an extremely high price at the time,” Joe said. His father Stanley Skeba continued the farm’s operations. His grandfather, Louis Skeba, came from Poland as a farmhand and later bought the land they now own in Monroe Township. Joe Skeba, 74, said he attended Trenton Catholic High School, as did many from Monroe and Cranbury back then, and then attended Mercer County College and Rider University. I raise all types of vegetables and have a farm market on Route 33,” he said, noting the Red Wagon has been in various locations in its four-decade history, mostly along Route 33, a road that runs from Trenton to the Jersey Shore. “I’m still in the house my grandfather lived in. His son Daniel, 38, the fourth generation to farm the land, has been helping out since he was five. “My grandfather was a farmer, my father was a farmer, and I’ve been farming all of my life as well,” Skeba said. He has sold off some of his land over the years but still owns 400 acres and leases another 450 acres.

His son Daniel, Joe’s wife Laurie, and several crews help Joe manage his 50-plus acres of sweet corn and the huge variety of other vegetables and fruit he grows. 10, 2017) - Between his long-established Red Wagon Farm Market on nearby Route 33, the 850 acres he farms, and the way other farmers rave about his corn, Joe Skeba isn’t planning on retiring any time soon. “I’ve been voted ‘Number 1’ by other farmers from throughout the state, and there are a lot farmers and produce markets from North Jersey and even New York, they come here to buy their corn,” Skeba said. Joe Skeba’s sweet corn is known throughout New Jersey.

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