Benjamin and Stella Godlewsky, who came from Poland, started the farm on Alphano Road, where the rich black "muck" soil was known for celery and onions. For decades it was a wholesale vegetable farm; in the late 1970s Joseph Godlewsky Sr. and his family added greenhouses, and today there are more than 42. The fields still grow vegetables, the farm's sweet corn, sod and cut flowers, using Rutgers IPM methods, while the greenhouses turn out bedding plants, fall mums and poinsettias. The family also makes its own wreaths and Christmas decorations.
What’s here
- Grown or raised here
- Sweet corn · Vegetables from the muck fields: celery, lettuces, cabbage, onions, leeks, carrots, beets, spinach, peppers, tomatoes and parsley · Herbs · Pumpkins, gourds and Indian corn · Winter vegetables in fall
- Sold here from other producers
- Christmas trees in various sizes
This season
Fall brings mums, pumpkins, gourds, cornstalks, flowering kale and winter vegetables. The Veggie Club runs into November as the crop allows. The Christmas shop, with handmade wreaths from 10 to 60 inches, grave blankets, swags, roping and trees, opens the first weekend after Thanksgiving and runs through December; the farm then closes to the public January to March.
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