Historic Longstreet Farm Photography Location

The Historic Longstreet Farm is a living history farm that recreates the agricultural life of the 1890s. Interpreters dress in period costumes and perform typical year-round farming and domestic actives, including seasonal planting and harvesting crops and raising livestock. The farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Monmouth County Park System purchased the farm in 1967 to preserve the county’s rural past. The farm opened to the public in 1972 as Historic Longstreet Farm.

Longstreet Farm is a relatively complete example of a typical nineteenth-century farm created by Dutch settlers in New Jersey. The farmstead consists of a 14-room Federal-style farmhouse, a Dutch barn, and a nineteenth-century farm outbuildings collection.

BEST TIME TO GO

The best times are in the spring, early summer, and fall. You can go in the winter, but the trees are bare, and it’s quite boring.

HOW LONG TO PHOTOGRAPH

It will take only a few hours, including some walking. There is a lake, some animals, and some workers to photograph.

PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR TO BRING

DSLR, wide-angle lens, a circular polarizing filter to take the glare off the lake, batteries, and extra memory cards.

WHAT ELSE TO BRING

Organic sunscreen. (Sunscreen is a cancer-causing agent; the more it bakes into your skin, the more carcinogenic it becomes.) Don’t forget to bring your organic bug repellent and a durable pair of hiking boots for any trail you might take. Have a waterproof backpack or rain cover to protect your equipment. Packaging a rain jacket, long pants, hat, and sunglasses is also wise to shield yourself from the elements.

HOW TO GET THERE

Address for GPS:

44 Longstreet Road, Holmdel 07733
732-946-3758
Brochure | Tick Advisory | History
Free Weekend Activities
Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily; extended hours 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Memorial Day-Labor Day

HOW BUSY DOES IT GET?

Summer after school gets out, the park can fill up on weekends.

FEES:

None

HOTEL, RESTAURANTS, CAMPING & WEATHER – SEE BELOW

Historic Longstreet Farm is open daily year-round, free of charge. The park offers several areas of interest for photography. If you give it some effort, you can create some pretty dynamic photos for a New Jersey location.

The staff will happily allow you to take their pictures, and the animals don’t seem to mind either. When photographing this area in New Jersey, you should stay at The Colts Neck Inn. The Inn offers large, immaculate rooms in a beautiful building with a great atmosphere. The service is impeccable.

HOTELS

Hotel Information:

The Colts Neck Inn – Go to the Website

Address: 191 County Rd 537, Colts Neck, NJ 07722

Phone: (732) 409-1200

While doing photography at Longstreet Park or Allaire Village, you are looking for a place to rest and visit the Colts Neck Inn Hotel. The location offers the country’s tranquility while being close to the Asbury Park and Long Branch Beaches, Delicious Orchards, Monmouth Race Track, Jersey Shore Premium Outlets, Eatontown, Freehold, and Red Bank. Our two-story hotel features 47 individually decorated rooms with Thomasville™ furnishings. They also offer two grand suites, each with a Jacuzzi. Guests enjoy free Wi-Fi, cable TV, parking, and continental breakfast. The Colts Neck Inn Hotel offers the comfort and charm one expects in a country setting, with modern amenities.

CAMPING

Add your campground here! Do you want us to send our photography and ghost-hunting friends to your campground to stay during their ghost-hunting trip? Put your campground information here. We will put a picture of your establishment, the website link, the phone number, and the information on your campground to make it easy for our photographers and ghost hunters to find you. They are good at getting there in the dark.

Would you like to be featured in an article as a place to stay while doing photography or ghost hunting? If so, please send us an email. You will be surprised at how affordable our prices can be.

FOOD & DINING

Add your Restaurant here! Do you want us to send our photography and ghost-hunting friends to your restaurant after their ghost-hunting trip? Put your restaurant information here. We will put a picture of your establishment, the website link, the phone number, and the information on your restaurant to make it easy for our photographers and ghost hunters to find you.

AREA INFORMATION

There are no fees to visit the park.

WEATHER

Click here to see the weather

Don’t forget that you can use a rain sleeve on your camera if it is raining. If it is bright and sunny, you want to use a low ISO such as 100.

If you are doing photography along with your ghost hunting on cloudy days, you can do running water or waterfall photography to avoid the glaring sun. You can also use an ND filter to get a long exposure for dramatic effects, even in the sunshine. If you ghost hunt indoors in abandoned places, be careful!

Go to our Photography Store after reading all about waterfall photography or neutral density filters.

We Love, love, love this place!!

Beyond Organics

89 Howell Rd

Freehold, N.J.

We don’t love Beyond Organics nearly as much anymore.

We were on our way home when we realized we were not far from Beyond Organics. We pulled over, changed direction, and traveled back to Beyond Organics. We were ravenous but knew a good green smoothie would fill us. We found only all fruit smoothies high in carbohydrates and are doing low carb for ten days. Besides, we never do unhealthy glycemic spike smoothies (all fruit), which promotes metabolic syndrome. The others were juices made with vegetables, with lower carbs, yet still not totally healthy for us and would not come close to satisfying our hunger. We made a special request to change a few ingredients in the smoothie.

They flat-out refused to accommodate us and we make no exception whatsoever.

When I asked why? The woman just said, “Because we don’t.” Looking at her like she had three heads, very surprised at the answer or lack thereof, she finally said something like, because the juices have all the benefits of the vegetables.

We searched for something to eat that was safe from toxins, being an organic food stand, that should have been easy. I explained that I was ravenous, but the only options available were tuna, salmon or chicken salad. We didn’t eat tuna or salmon because of its high mercury content, the third most toxic element on earth, and we were vegetarian, so chicken was off the table, too. After turning around to backtrack to go here, after all that effort, we left starving as we had entered. I said I guess I will have to wait until I get home.

Was it really so hard to remove a banana, high carb and replace it with some kale and some greens when behind you was an entire farm of different greens? Shouldn’t business be about the customers and if they have specific dietary requirement shouldn’t you try to accomodate them verses sending them away ravenous?

We like smoothies that keep the fiber, in comparison to the juice, and we use more greens than fruit to avoid the massive glycemic spike from all fruit smoothies. They would not alter the drink even in the slightest.

We ran this ad for them free of charge for six whole years because we wanted to promote healthy organic businesses. We now shrunk the ad and replaced it with this section. WE GET VERY GROUCHY WHEN WE ARE THIS HUNGRY!

We suggest you stick to purchasing their organic greens, which we love but were too hungry to waste any more time before we got food in us to buy any.

Negative Consequence of Smoothies and Juices Not Created Right

IF YOU HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS, FRUIT-ONLY SMOOTHIES MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOU.

Juices often contain very little fiber or protein, which are two essential nutrients to maintain balanced blood sugar.

People often make the misjudgment of constructing a smoothie solely from fruit, which is not nutritionally proportionate. This mistake can cause drastic changes in their blood sugar levels, causing very unhealthy glycemic spikes. This can eventually lead to crashes and will not keep them satiated for very long. “It is essential to avoid creating smoothies with only fruits,”