Tom grew up in Sydney and enjoyed a career in the corporate world of retail, marketing and brand management, working his way up from the factory floor to the board room of an ASX listed company. Tom spent almost half his life living on the family’s working cattle property in the southern tablelands of New South Wales where his passion for the land was born. He met Emma and they traded their big-city lives in fast-paced jobs to establish The Farm at Byron Bay, to create a different life for themselves and their four children, where they could understand where their food comes from, develop a love of the land and feel a real sense of community.