Tim Collins and his wife, Emily, intended to downsize.
But that’s not what happened.
“I downsized from a 5,000-square-foot house to a 10,000-square-foot house,” he laughs.
But they did more than not downsize. They also purchased the 188-acre Meredith Farm in Topsfield and spent several years renovating it. Now, Collins, the founder and CEO of the Ipswich-headquartered EBSCO Information Services, is also a “gentleman farmer,” a charmingly old-fashioned term for a person who farms for pleasure, rather than to make a living at it. “I’m not a farmer and have a very low level of talent,” he says. “But I