Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Fosterfields is the Morris County Park Commission’s living-history farm, set on the former estate of Charles and Caroline Foster. The 1854 Gothic Revival mansion at the center of the property, The Willows, was Caroline Foster’s home until she willed the estate to the county in 1979.

The farm runs as it would have around 1900. Staff in period clothing tend Jersey cattle, sheep, chickens, and seasonal crops using turn-of-the-century methods: hand-cranked separators, horse-drawn equipment, a working blacksmith shop. The dairy is active; the kitchen garden, working orchard, and the wagon barn are all open to walk through.

Seasonal events anchor the calendar: sheep shearing in spring, dairy days in summer, harvest weekends and the Foster Mansion holiday tour in the fall. Closed for winter; the site reopens with the lambs in early April.

Free parking on site, plus a small farm store at the entrance.