We are so happy to have Tim Wightman join us as our managing farmer! We couldn’t ask for a better match for a manager to bring the Farm at Woods Hill back to what it once was; a pasture-based, multi-species, non-industrial farm that produces food the old fashion way. A humane animal focused farm that allows animals freedom to live outside, frolic in the sun and eat the foods that they were intended to eat without genetically modified organisms in their food and the overuse of antibiotics.
I had the honor of meeting Tim in 2009 during the Northeast Organic Farmers Association conference when I was filming there for Farmageddon and he obliged to be interviewed. Tim had run a successful dairy farm in Wisconsin for years, and that farm supplied the food to a successful restaurant that was located on the farm, but that is only one reason why Tim is perfect for the job.
Tim’s Bio
Tim Wightman serves as the President of the Farm to Consumer Foundation, and is an expert in sustainable farm management and design, animal health and quality raw milk production through proper land management.
Tim has worked in agriculture all of his life, pioneered CSA’s, organic cooperatives, farmer’s markets, local sourced restaurants and was a founding board member of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Tim consults with investment, producer and consumer groups, individual farmers, and often speaks at conferences about raw milk production practices, the future of agriculture and the economic renewal that local food provides. Tim currently manages The Farm at Woods Hill in Northern New Hampshire.
Tim has brought a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience to our farm. It just so happened that he was between jobs, and living in New Hampshire at the exact time I was looking for a farmer…and looking for a farm. Tim alerted me to the farm that we ended up buying, that, oddly was on Clough Road and Clough is my maiden name. He told me that as soon as he saw the name of the road he thought “yep, this is going to happen”
That made me laugh. However, we bought the farm for other reasons, such as it being one of the most beautiful farms we have ever seen. Tim is working very hard turning what for the last few decades was a gentlemen’s farm, back into a working farm. In the past, the farm has been a commercial maple syrup farm, and the family that lived there has raised a few cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys for their own consumption, but it hasn’t had the amount of livestock on it for a while that we plan to raise, if ever.
