Earth
Farmers
Providing support and advice across biological, regenerative and organic farming systems.
Earth Farmers is a small, independent advisory service helping farmers, growers and estates transition to biological, regenerative and organic farming systems.
Established in 2020 by Tim Williams, we draw on over 20 years of practical farming and farm management experience across New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
Our work focuses on helping clients understand their soils, reduce reliance on external inputs and make practical changes to the way they farm. From ongoing mentoring and day-to-day advice to detailed farm assessments and transition planning, we provide a full package of support that considers both the biological and commercial realities of farming and growing.
How we can help
Soil Health & Baselining
- Soil biology, chemistry and structure
- Soil and plant health assessments
- Identifying constraints and opportunities
Biological & Regenerative Agronomy
- Cropping systems and rotations
- Cover crops and herbal leys
- Soil fertility and biological management
- Reducing reliance on external inputs
Organic Conversion & Input Reduction
- Organic conversion planning and support
- Phased reduction of synthetic inputs
- Managing the transition practically and financially
Livestock Integration & Adaptive Grazing
- Grazing management and forage planning
- Livestock integration into arable systems
- Pasture productivity and animal performance
Farm Planning & Financial Analysis
- Farming system reviews and transition planning
- Enterprise budgets and financial modelling
- Land use, infrastructure and funding opportunities
Workshops & Training
- Farmer workshops and discussion groups
- Farm team training
- Talks and industry events
About
Earth Farmers was founded by Tim Williams, 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.
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.
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.
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.
A particular strength is his 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.
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.