Wayne Weiseman is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant, and author. He lives in Carbondale, Illinois with his wife, Frances, and daughter, Halima. He was certified to teach permaculture by Bill Mollison, the founder of permaculture, in 1999. Wayne has taught hundreds of Permaculture Design Courses around the world. He has served as a consultant and lecturer to educators, school administrators, business leaders, and others internationally. For 15 years Wayne managed a land-based, self-reliant community project combining organic crop/food production, ecologically-built shelter, renewable energy and appropriate technologies.
Wayne founded The Permaculture Project LLC in 2001 as a permaculture design and education services company. It is based in Carbondale, Illinois, USA. The Permaculture Project LLC provides education, design and consulting services worldwide focused on implementing land and structure designs based on the principles and ethics of permaculture. We use appropriate tools and technologies that create positive and ethical lifestyle changes, sustain rather than diminish resources, harmonize relations between ecological and human systems, and stabilize these systems for future generations.
Wayne is a co-author of an authoritative book on integrated forest gardening and plant guilds that was published in August, 2014.