Kelly's Story

Kelly with her Icelandic Ram, Harley

Kelly Frost moved to Hardwick to live a simple life on a small homestead. She and her young daughter were starting a fiber farm (sheep, goats, rabbits, etc.) and making plans to enlarge the small camp in which they were living when, in 2007, everything came to a screeching halt. Kelly was involved in a serious car accident and suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI is a challenging disability because people often appear no different than they did before their accident. The effects are not readily visible, but are very real and include memory loss, concentration and attention problems and communication and language issues. This has left Kelly unable to return to her job and for a time brought work at the farm to a standstill. Now that her condition has stabilized and with the help of the groups listed above, Kelly is developing a business plan though (NEKCA) to make the fiber farm reality. She has taken many steps forward, but one challenge overshadows all future plans. Kelly and her daughter have been living in a one room camp with a small bathroom and no kitchen.

There is no room for basic appliances such as a refrigerator and stove, no private space and no room for Kelly to work on the fiber art projects that could provide a sustainable living for her and her daughter. This seems like a very sad ending to one woman's dream, but we are confident that the amazing community in which we live will NOT let the story end here!!