Tom Hartley

Senior Certification Officer

Tom studied Horticulture with global plant use at Duchy College, Cornwall before gaining extensive practical experience growing field-scale organic vegetables, running a box scheme and supplying to local Food for Life award-winning schools.

He has been a Certification Officer since 2010 and an inspector since 2018. Tom looks after many of our horticulture and fresh produce licensees, as well as a number of seed mills and also our Approved Inputs scheme. Outside of work Tom can often be found on his allotment experimenting with unusual vegetable varieties.

Please contact Tom on +44 (0)117 314 5136, or thartley@soilassociation.org