Earth
Farmers
Independent thinking for farms and estates.
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From one-to-one mentoring and practical advice to whole-farm regenerative transition
With over a decade working directly in regenerative agriculture, Earth Farmers provides practical, context-specific support, from day-to-day farm management advice through to whole-farm transition planning.
Established by Tim Williams, Earth Farmers works across a wide range of scales and systems, from vineyards and smallholdings to large commercial farms and estates.
We support farmers, growers, landowners and associated organisations across the UK and Europe, giving them the understanding and confidence to develop soil-focused, biological and resilient farming systems.
Drawing on more than 20 years of hands-on farming experience across New Zealand, Australia and the UK, our approach brings soils, management and economics together to develop and implement practical, achievable changes that reflect the opportunities and realities of each individual operation.
Farmers
Support for your regenerative transition, technical, financial and practical.
Estates
Estate-level strategy built on the same farm-level foundation.
Community
Education and knowledge transfer, delivered with partner organisations.
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 has been shaped by a lifetime of practical experience across progressive, large-scale farming operations in New Zealand and the UK, including Mt Cass, Glendhu, and Mangarara Stations in New Zealand, and Enford Farm, a 10,000-acre mixed farming enterprise on the Salisbury Plain. In 2020, he moved into contract farming on an estate in East Cornwall, where he was able to put that experience into practice, turning severely degraded soils around within three years, becoming one of the first growers for Wildfarmed.
It was at Mangarara where 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.
A particular strength is our 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 wider network of specialists across regenerative agronomy, public and private funding, ecological land management, and is delivered alongside land agents and other professionals where appropriate.
Tim 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