Located at 31 North Road, Foster, this farm was purchased in 1923 by Charles Borders’ parents.  The farmhouse was built in 1849 by Capt. George Phillips. The Borders family moved in just before Thanksgiving of 1923. The cow barn was on the hill to the west of the house, and the barn behind the house was for horses.  The first year, there was only one cow and a horse.  Soon Charles’ father began operations as a dairy farm with about 20 milk cows.  There was no electricity until 1938, so a gasoline operated milking machine was used at first.

Charles was born in 1925.  Dr. McCurdy and a midwife named Ida Webster assisted at the birth.  His first remembrance of farm work was cleaning up the front dooryard, and his first job was getting grain ready for the cows.  When Charles was 11 years old he bought his first cow.  He milked his cow each day, then weighed the milk and combined it with milk from the other cows to be sold to H.P. Hood.  After payment was received for the milk, Charles would be given his portion of the money. 

As Charles grew older, he took over more and more of the farm operations.

After his father’s death, Charles bought the property from his mother and increased the size of the dairy farm. He rebuilt the old barn in order to accommodate 65 cows.

For more information, please call 647-5689, or visit our website at:  

  bordersfarm.org  or  bordersfarm.com

Charles met his wife, Margery, at church service at her home in Plymouth MA.  They were married in 1957.  Margery served as Foster Town Council President and Foster Town Clerk for many years. 

The fruition of their hard work took place in December 2004, when a ceremony for the Celebration of the Preservation of Borders Farm was held.  The proceeds from the sale of the farm, and the protection of its development rights were turned over to the Borders Farm Preservation, Inc., a non-profit corporation formed to oversee and finance the farm forever.

The mission of Borders Farm Preservation, Inc.  
is to preserve the past for the future. We are in  the
process of building our membership, and welcome
individuals interested in following the BFPI mission

or by telephone at 647-5689.

Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month. 
If you would like to attend a meeting for a preview of our organization, please let us know.

Some of our projects include:

Ø      Construction of a garden shed

Ø      Community and State Food Bank Garden

Ø      Preparations to build a gazebo

Ø      Nature trail walks

Ø      Speakers and workshops

For more information, please call 647-5689, or visit our website at:  

   bordersfarm.org  or  bordersfarm.com

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Concert performed by the

Providence Brigade Band. 

If you are interested in more information about BFPI
or about becoming a member or a volunteer, feel free to contact us:

• farmer@bordersfarm.org or
• farmer@bordersfarm.com
• 647-5689
• 647-4984