GREEN ACRES

In 2010, Alex Cecchinelli and Stacey Apple started a garden. Apple, an aspiring chef, was interested in learning how to grow food. Her partner, Cecchinelli, had grown up gardening and offered to show her the ropes.

So they started a small garden at Cecchinelli’s childhood home in Danvers, and travelled up regularly from their homes in Boston to weed and water and tend to their tomatoes and lettuce and carrots and beets.

“We’d go home every weekend and take