Historic Longstreet Farm, the Monmouth County Park System's working farm set in the 1890s, has a free program on almost every weekend between now and mid-December. The schedule runs from period accordion music the Saturday before Thanksgiving to two afternoons with Santa, and nothing on it costs a ticket.

The weekends, in order

  • Saturday, November 21, 1 to 3 p.m.: Accordion Melodies of the 1890s, tunes from the decade the farm portrays.
  • Saturday, November 28, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: A Cookstove Demonstration in the farmhouse kitchen, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
  • Saturday, December 5, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Holiday Tree Trimming. Visitors make a Victorian ornament to hang on the tree in the Visitor Center.
  • Sunday, December 6, 1 to 3 p.m.: 19th Century Christmas Ballads.
  • Saturday, December 12, 1 to 3 p.m.: The Sounds of Christmas, Victorian-era carols performed by Max Rowland and the Stark and Steady band.
  • Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, noon to 3 p.m.: Visit with Santa. No appointment is needed.

Every program is free, according to the Park System's calendar.

About the farm

Longstreet Farm sits inside Holmdel Park and is run as a living history farm, with interpreters in period dress working the house, barns and fields the way a Monmouth County farm family would have in the 1890s.

Plan your visit

Holmdel Park and Longstreet Farm are on Longstreet Road in Holmdel, a short drive from Garden State Parkway Exit 114 or 116. Parking is free. The Park System's online calendar posts any changes to times or weather cancellations.

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