From an apple cart to a N.J. institution, Delicious Orchards pioneer dead at 94 Updated Mar 06, 2021; Posted Mar 06, 2021 Carroll (Skip) W. Barclay, Jr., who turned Delicious Orchards in Colts Neck into a major food market.Freeman Funeral of Freehold Facebook Share Carroll “Skip” W. Barclay, Jr., a New Jersey farmer who turned a small produce stand into one of New Jersey’s best-known food markets, Delicious Orchards, died Monday. He was 94. The Colts Neck institution — now 350 employees large and with 2.5 million visitors a year — dates back more than a century to 1911. According to his obituary, Barclay inherited the apple orchard from his grandfather and in 1959 began hauling wagonloads of apples to County Route 537. The next year, he scaled up to a 1,200-square-foot stand to meet demand. Less than a decade later, he and his wife bought a red brick building to house Delicious Orchards on Route 34, and the rest is history.