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Migrants living in at-capacity emergency shelters are packaging cooking oil in Ayer, caring for patients with developmental disabilities in Waltham, and gearing up to clean hospital rooms in Salem. But getting to that point has required a massive undertaking.
When William Caldwell and his wife Charlotte left London to rent a farm in the Quantock Hills in Somerset, they didn’t intend to stay more than a year. “It was a question of getting farming out of our system,” says Caldwell. The change of pace and direction was so invigorating, though, that they soon came to see farming as their life rather than a job. “Change is always good but even more so when you’re doing something active and guided by the seasons. We haven’t looked back.”