back in 2008, amid the throes of the global economic crisis, plenty of people started thinking about living and working in a different way. Molly and Eric Glasgow were among them. The couple and their two young sons were then expats in London, planning to move back to the U.S. They’d already spent years bouncing around for Eric’s work as an oil trader, with stints in New York, Connecticut, and Texas. Neither wanted to return to their Stateside life as they had known it—they wanted a change. Like many of us, they had envisioned the pastoral bliss of owning a working farm. Except instead of just dreaming about it, they actually went out and bought one.