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Cultivating Place: Bird Haven Farm, with Janet Mave

Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Backcountry Press, with photographer credits in image titles. All rights reserved.

This week on Cultivating Place we celebrate one woman’s long-standing and loving cultivation of place in rural New Jersey.

Janet Mave is the steward and student of Bird Haven Farm, which after many years of learning from and loving, she now celebrates in word and image in her new place-based memoir: Bird Haven Farm the Story of An Original American Garden, written by Janet and photographed by Ngoc Minh Ngo, out now from Rizzoli Press.

This is a conversation about a beautiful, ecological, and intentional human-place collaboration to begin tying up the CP lessons of this season, and look forward to seeding and inspiring the coming seasons! Enjoy!

All photos courtesy of Janet Mavec, taken by Ngoc Minh Ngo, all rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Janet Mavec, taken by Ngoc Minh Ngo, all rights reserved.

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with more than 15 years of experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs.