Haven Hill Farm

Haven Hill Farm was established by Edsel Ford as a farm complex intended to support the entire Haven Hill Estate with the goal of being self sufficient. The complex, called the Farm Group Buildings, reflected deep respect for the land. Edsel Ford learned from his father Henry Ford, who wrote in 1932 that "with one foot in industry and another foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced..." In 1941 Henry Ford displayed a car with plastic body panels made from soybeans that weighed 1,000 pounds less than a steel car. Jens Jensen designed Haven Hill with road plans, Haven Hill Lake, and a waterfowl sanctuary, and his work emphasized naturalistic features and native plants. In Michigan, Jensen also designed the landscapes at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores and at Henry Ford's Fair Lane estate in Dearborn.

Michigan · United States