About Janet
Janet Mavec’s gardening life began as a child in Ohio and flourished when she moved to Bird Haven Farm in 1996. Throughout her long jewelry career, nature has served as a constant — including as a source of inspiration for her eponymous line, which features designs based exclusively on natural forms, from apples to strawberries to acorns to peapods to doves. She has served on the board of Wave Hill and with its Friends of Horticulture at Wave Hill for twenty-two years, including as chair. Bird Haven Farm has participated in The Garden Conservancy Open Days program for over twenty years.
About Bird Haven Farm
Bird Haven Farm is a historic 100-acre property nestled in a natural hollow in Pottersville, New Jersey, surrounded by native woodland and shaped by more than two decades of devoted stewardship.
What began as a farm with a solitary stone house — originally owned by the publisher of the Nancy Drew mysteries — has been transformed into one of America's great contemporary private gardens. A series of distinct garden rooms unfolds across the landscape: cloud-pruned boxwood hedges define a broad gathering space, groves of lilacs and dogwoods offer delicate color each spring, a stone-walled kitchen garden draws on the geometry of medieval monasteries, and an elliptical hillside meadow is farmed for hay each season. At the center of it all is a ground-level fountain that anchors the farm's "town square" — the natural heart of the property.
The orchards yield over five hundred pounds of apples each fall. A natural pond brims with aquatic plants. Winding perennial-lined paths invite exploration in every season.
Bird Haven Farm has been a fixture on the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program, welcoming visitors who share a love of thoughtful, ecologically grounded gardening. The farm's approach — stewarding land in a way that is both responsible and abundantly beautiful — is the philosophy at the heart of everything grown and gathered here.
