When Janet Mavec’s husband purchased Fowl Haven Farm in Western New Jersey within the Nineteen Eighties, it had been the long-cherished retreat of publishing maven Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, whose most well-known character was Nancy Drew. Nancy had been invented by Harriet’s father, who additionally got here up with the Hardy Boys and earlier characters with evocative names like Dashaway Dan. His premature demise meant that his daughters inherited Miss Drew earlier than their father was capable of take pleasure in her success, and Harriet performed the central function in turning Nancy right into a publishing phenomenon. Janet, who has lived at Fowl Haven Farm for 30 years, maintains that the unique outdated stone home is haunted by Harriet.
It’s okay, she’s fairly completely happy: on studying Janet’s entertaining and splendidly photographed guide, Fowl Haven Farm: The Story of an Unique American Backyard, it’s clear that she approaches the farm’s bounty and generosity in an analogous option to Harriet, sharing it with family and friends. For Harriet, it was a retreat that was additionally a venue for author’s events (her home focus was on the vegetable and lower flower backyard). However the property’s assortment of buildings, set inside 100 acres, was not terribly useful, and after some sleuthing into its previous, Janet determined that the famend panorama architect Fernando Caruncho was simply the particular person to make sense of the panorama’s clues.
Pictures by Ngoc Minh Ngo, besides the place famous.
When Caruncho first visited Fowl Haven Farm in 2001, he recollects, the property’s structure “evoked a way of unease and constraint, as if the timber of the neighboring forest had been an encroaching military, encircling the property.” Trails had been lower via to ask in shafts of sunshine and tree canopies had been raised on the forest edge to focus on their types.
