About

Earth Farmers was founded by Tim Williams in 2020, following twenty years of farming and farm management across the UK, New Zealand and Australia, spanning conventional, organic and regenerative systems across livestock, arable and mixed enterprises.

Early in his career, Tim studied Agricultural Management at Lincoln University in New Zealand before entering the commercial agricultural industry at two of New Zealand's largest meat processing companies, Silver Fern Farms and Anzco Foods. Starting on the slaughter-board and working through to supply chain management, large account handling and market analysis, it was here that the commercial and analytical foundations were built.

Tim's understanding of farming systems was shaped over a lifetime of practical experience across some of the most progressive and large scale farming operations in New Zealand and the UK, including Mt Cass, Glendhu Station and Mangarara Station in New Zealand, and Enford Farm here in the UK, a 10,000 acre organic enterprise on the Salisbury Plain.

It was at Mangarara that he learnt directly from Dr Christine Jones, Nicole Masters, Darren Doherty and Ian Mitchell-Innes. That experience formed a clear view: the most effective farming systems are not ideological. They are grounded in biology, designed around commercial reality, and built to perform.

Back in the UK, Tim identified a knowledge gap that still largely exists. There is no shortage of regenerative enthusiasm. There is a shortage of people who really understand what a genuinely regenerative system looks like, particularly when it has to make commercial sense.

A particular strength is the ability to zoom out, to read a farm or estate as a whole system, understanding how enterprises, soils, finances and management decisions interact with and depend on each other, much as biology, plants and soil function as a system rather than separate components.

Earth Farmers sits at the point where soil health and commercial viability become the same conversation. We don't assume. We test, we observe, and we report what the farm is actually telling us.

Alongside the practical farming background, Tim has extensive experience in farm business analysis, including financial modelling, scheme income planning and long-term enterprise scenario design.

Advisory work is supported by a network of specialist advisers across agronomy, finance and land management, and delivered in collaboration with land agents and other professional advisers where appropriate.

Tim also teaches Regenerative Agriculture at Level 4 at the Apricot Centre and has spoken at various regenerative farming events around the UK including Groundswell, the Oxford Real Farming Conference, Rootstock, LandAlive and the RegenAg Gathering.

Earth Farmers works across the full spectrum of farm and estate scale, from large mixed estates through to family farms and smaller enterprises.

If you would like to get in touch, feel free to send us a message or call +447733395383