David Savill - Your Farmer

My approach to ecological agriculture

My agroecological approach extends beyond regenerative and organic methods. It has dual goals: helping farmers take advantage of natural systems to increase production, and providing superior nutritional food outcomes for consumers.

Over the last decade — beginning during my undergraduate studies — I have developed an outcomes-based assessment model for ecological farming. I use this model today when working with farmers to help them build ecologically robust agroecosystems for their farms and businesses.

I'm currently undertaking a Master of Agricultural Science with the goal of furthering research into practical applications of biological farming systems and author of the Your Farmer Certified eight-outcome standard (2014)

Founder of Your Farmer

Alongside my work as a farmer and agronomist, I'm an entrepreneur with a background that spans agricultural science, ecology, and technology. I've previously built startups in the education and healthcare sectors.

Your Farmer is a farmgate-to-plate ecosystem that enables ecological farmers to supply consumers directly, while gaining the economies of scale that come from grouping together. It's a marketplace designed to connect consumers with good food, grown ecologically — but it isn't open to anyone. The price of entry is a commitment to ecological growing, whether a producer is just starting out on that path or already well advanced.

My goal with Your Farmer is to grow ecological agriculture as a movement: giving committed farmers a viable route to market, and giving consumers direct access to food grown in line with the same ecological principles I apply in my agronomy practice.

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