• Boston Globe

    Alongside a career in IT, Robert Chang forges a new life as a farmer, while advocating for farmers of color in Southern New England

    ‘I want to help them and others find a way out of no way’ States of Farming: Another in a series of occasional stories looking at BIPOC farmers in New England. By Jocelyn Ruggiero Globe correspondent,Updated June 29, 2021 WOODSTOCK, Conn. — Echo Farm was exactly what Robert Chang and his partner had spent two years looking for. Situated on Route 169, a National Scenic Byway in the state’s northeast corner, the historic 1880 farmhouse was in perfect move-in condition. And unlike so many other properties they had seen, its 14 acres of fields weren’t overgrown with forest. But although its listing price had recently dropped, at $370,000, it was still…