About Wayne Weiseman:

Wayne Weiseman was certified by Bill Mollison and The Permaculture Institute of Australia to teach the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. Raised partly in the country as well as New York City, Wayne learned at a young age how to find solace in nature. Wayne has been working with plants for as long as he can remember. He currently resides in Carbondale with his wife Frannie and their 3 year old daughter.

Wayne has worked as a builder and contractor, herbalist, renewable energy expert, and farmer for the past twenty-five years. He currently plies his trade at Dayempur Farm in Southern Illinois, a land-based, self-reliant community project combining organic crop/food production, ecologically-built shelter, renewable energy, appropriate technologies and educational programs. He is also the Director of The Permaculture Project, a full-service, international consulting business promoting the ideas of eco-agriculture, renewable energy resources and eco-construction methods. His skills in this area led him to leading a full permaculture design course for the staff and friends of the Findhorn Community in Scotland this past summer (2005).

Wayne has spent several years as a school teacher but more recently as a consultant to educators and administrators in curriculum and professional development. As a primitive wilderness instructor he relies on observation techniques and a thorough understanding of the natural world to ply his trade. He has worked extensively with corporate executives in the arts of team building, nature study and the application of ideas in business and life, developed through the observation of the cycles and connections found in the natural world.