Benjamin Weiss is a certified permaculture designer and teacher, gardener, brewer, musician, and poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ben studied natural building and permaculture at the Farm Ecovillage Training Center, received a permaculture teacher certification from CRMPI, studied urban agriculture at Growing Power, and has studied herbalism with Sarah Preston of Radiance in Lancaster and shamanic dreaming techniques with Adhi Moonien Two-Owls. Ben has facilitated 12 PDCs and many other classes and workshops, has designed and managed three organic farms, and currently is foraging professionally and developing the Rewilding Design System with his colleague Wilson Alvarez.