Foster Farm Legacy
Captain Josiah Foster founded the Foster Farm in 1870. After having retired from the whaling trade and having circumnavigated the globe several times in this capacity, he fell from his own hayloft and soon succumbed to his injuries. He had two sons who took the farm over, and they too had sons that continued, and so on. With the years, so the changes.
Today, siblings, Dean and Marilee, are the 6th generation to work this land. Much of the 150 acres that the Fosters farm has been permanently preserved for agricultural use.
Sagaponack Dirt
Bridgehampton Loam (BgA) is the dirt that keeps us here. Identified as some of the most productive farmland in the country, it is the proverbial furrow in which almost any seed will grow. Much of our local farmland is of this particular and precious soil type. And Sagaponack in particular, almost all of it…the land, save the dune banks…but right up to them, is BgA.