Sienna Scott is a forager, gardener, animal lover and sustainability advocate. When not at work, she’s out foraging around town, learning Wisconsin's flora, volunteering with county parks or working on the land around her home. She has always been an artist, and has been weaving since young, but only really began to make big baskets in 2020. She is happy to teach, learn and share what she has learned!

Tamara lives along the Wisconsin River, with her family, 8 chickens, 3 cats, and a variety of woodland creatures. They grow apple trees, a cherry tree, currant and blueberry bushes, a vegetable garden, a medicinal garden, and are starting Somerset grapes this year. Tamra has been making soap and shampoo bars for around 15 years. She has been using essential oils in her soaps and shampoo bars, to harness the variety of benefits each essential oil offers.

Kate Heiber-Cobb took her Permaculture Design Certificate Course in 2007.  She founded, and still works with, the Madison Area Permaculture Guild.  She is a Grief Support Specialist and a ritualist of almost 50 years.

Julie Swanson did her Permaculture Design Certificate Course 10 years ago.  She presently works as a Death Doula and Grief Support Specialist. 

Amanda Rindal is an Acupuncturist, Herbal Medicine practitioner, a permaculturist, and a natural-building enthusiast. She has experience with cob building, earth-bag building, greenhouse design/building, gardening and, of course, making and applying earthen plasters!

Mike Haasl promotes permaculture homesteading and wants more young people to have access to their own land. He teaches, writes and experiments with ways to homestead with a lighter footprint. He lives in northern Wisconsin and tends a big garden, greenhouse and flock of chickens.

Greg has been a hobbyist beekeeper for a number of years. He pursues non-conventional beekeeping as in his view the current conventional, pseudo-commercial beekeeping is unsuitable for most hobbyists. He has been experimenting with traditional, Old World beekeeping approaches and development of local bees most appropriate for our region, Wisconsin. As of late Greg realized that bees can be very successfully kept and propagated using commercial shipping containers of different shapes and sizes made of Styrofoam and easily obtainable from recycling sources. It is very much probable that no one across the North American beekeeping community is using the techniques Greg is using. Greg calls this Styro-Skep beekeeping.

Is a husband, father, and homesteader, living on a small 5 acre farmette south of Brodhead, WI. He is active in his community as a scout leader, coach and commander of the legion post. He is a veteran who is very active in veteran groups. He has used breathwork to successfully treat a traumatic brain injury. He currently runs a monthly breathing class at Anderson Japanese gardens in Rockford, IL for veterans and first responders, in addition to another group that meets to do breath work and other mental exercises to dive deeper and support one another.

Clint Freund is the owner of Cultivating The Commons, a small bio-regionally focused seed company. They specialize in garden seed that does well in the Upper Midwest and focus on adapting it through selection over years. Clint has spent over 13 years in Organic Farming, with two years at a seed apprenticeship and the last seven years developing CTC. Besides saving seeds, they love focusing on sharing the love of seed-saving through workshops and classes for kids. They also apply for grants and opportunities to grow these practical skills and put efforts into non-commodified varieties that need breeding or development.

Cherrie has been applying goats for brush management since 2008, has a BS in Wildlife Ecology, a MS in Agroecology, where she studied oak savanna restoration with goats, conducted doctoral research in immunology of parasite management in cows and goats, and prion disease in mesopredators. She has mentored contract browsing businesses for over a decade, and has a 130 acre farm in southwest WI, where her and her husband manage organic livestock regeneratively and low-input. They have sheep, goats, Norwegian draft horses, hens, livestock guardian dogs, and herding dogs. In the past, Cherrie has used geese for garlic weeding, ducks for insect management, pigs for tillage, cattle for toppling brush, and has raised rotationally-grazed meat rabbits and broiler chickens.

Marian has been coordinating volunteer ecological restorations at UW-Madison Arboretum for over 20 years, where she also conducts a leadership training for restoration volunteers and co-leads a Wisconsin Master Naturalists training. She also works for the US Green Building Council. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and a M.S. in Sustainable Systems with an emphasis in Permaculture. She has taught workshops and classes in permaculture, forest gardening, patterns in nature, and biomimicry. She also works as a consultant and facilitator for a variety of environmental, sustainability, and social change organizations, and as an edible landscape gardener and teacher. She has studied with herbalist Lola Stonehill with the Madison School of Herbal Medicine and is a trained Association of Nature and Forest Therapy guide. Her passion is helping people to connect with nature and fall in love with Earth.

Urban Permaculture Farmer:
DarnFarm urban edible landscape demonstration & experimentation

Permaculture Designer:
Sustainable design coaching and consultation, including rain/pollinator gardens, edible landscapes, water management, soil building and remediation

Permaculture Educator:
Permaculture Design Certification Instruction, Social permaculture coaching and consultation, specializing in non-violent communication, equitable governance (sociocratic/dynamic), mediation.

Masters Degree in Social Innovation and Sustainability Leadership

He is co-author of Integrated Forest Gardening, and author of Midwest Permaculture's Plant Guilds e-book. He is a former ethnobotanical researcher for the Natural Capital Plants database, and has cultivated a stunning food forest around his home in Southeast Wisconsin.

Erik is a biological and soil scientist with a Masters Degree in Biology from the University of North Dakota with a focus on plant-insect interactions. He is a certified Soil Food Web Lab Technician with a history of experience as a laboratory technician and manager.