Tim Parsons
Curringa Farm, Tasmania
Tim Parsons remembers when his parents built a farm stay cottage on their working farm in 1984 and began farm tours in 1990. Today, Curringa Farm, in central Tasmania, is known as one of the island’s earliest and longest running single family agritourism businesses. The farm’s core business is from Hong Kong and Singapore. Tim and his wife Jane, have built a further seven cottages and renovated a farmhouse to accommodate over 3500 visitors a year from around the world.
A further 10,000 tourists visit the farm each year to take a half day farm tour with BBQ Lunch They are the paddock end of the “Paddock to Plate” analogy, breeding 1400 prime lambs, growing opium poppies and exporting small seeds around the world.
Tim is regarded by his peers as one of Tasmania’s passionate and committed tourism operators who commands real on ground action and support for small family tourism businesses. His passion is agritourism and he was the only Australian to attend the Global Workshop on Agritourism in Vermont USA, 2022. It was there he reconnected with Caroline Millar after her visit to Curringa Farm over 10 years prior. The Scottish delegation to Vermont showed Tim what is possible at a coordinated country level and aligned with his values about the definition of Agritourism and its future.