After this November, the Southern Indiana farm where you picked a pumpkin and ordered a fried chicken dinner isn't likely to have Huber on the banner anymore.

Joe Huber's Family Farm & Restaurant, a popular tourist attraction and you-pick stop in western Clark County, is going on the auction block after the four grown children of the late founder Joe Huber Jr. agreed to retire, Doug Harritt, owner and president of the Harritt Group, said Tuesday afternoon.

The 160-acre farm, restaurant and two large party barns at 2421 Engle Road in Starlight will be auctioned at 10 a.m. on Nov. 17, Harritt said.

The property that has been in the family since 1926 will be sold in multiple tracts. Family members "would like to extend their deepest gratitude to everyone that supported them for the past nine decades," the Hubers wrote in a statement released by Harritt.

The restaurant and pumpkin patch routinely draw thousands of visitors from the Louisville area each fall for company picnics, school field trips and family outings. The eatery known for fried chicken and biscuits, a shop, and pumpkin patch is swarmed on fall weekends.

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The business is unrelated to the Huber Winery and Orchard, which also is located in Starlight. A message on its Facebook page, the Winery said that all of its "businesses, including Plantation Hall and Starlight Distillery, will continue operations as usual."

Joe Huber was born on the farm, one of 11 children. "We got our first bathroom when I was about 9 years old. My grandfather lived with us, so 14 people shared a bathroom," Huber said in an interview with the Courier Journal in 2007. "The boys would get up at about 5:30 and milk the cows before breakfast."

While his siblings married and left the farm, Huber stayed home, buying the place from his father at age 34. He launched one of the Midwest's first "you-pick" operations in 1967, an agri-tourism enterprise that transformed the apple and peach orchards and vegetable crops into a destination.

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With his wife Bonnie, Huber enlarged a soup and sandwich stand into a full-fledged restaurant. "We knew nothing about a restaurant," Bonnie Huber told the Courier Journal in 2008. "I told Joe, 'We're going to lose everything we got.' He kept telling me if I could get the food out like I did at home, he'd make it work."

The restaurant was a hit, and eventually the family added party barns with catered dinners for dances, weddings and other gatherings.

Joe Huber died in 2008 of leukemia. Tragedy struck three years ago when the couple's oldest son, Joe III, or JoJo, died in a freak drowning while cutting grass on a zero-turn mower. That left four siblings, Kimberly Huber Kaiser, Beverly Engleman, Charles "Chuck" and Lewis Huber to run the operation.

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The sale will mark the end of an era, said Jerry Finn, who lives nearby in Starlight. "Joe was such a pioneer and visionary. He took a dream and made it a reality. There will certainly be a hole in the community with that (business) gone."

If developers cut the farmland up and build subdivisions, Finn bets one thing: "Joe Huber would turn over in his grave. He was so proud of his farm."

Details on the auction soon will be provided by Harritt Group on its website, harrittgroup.com or 812-944-0217.

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