29th Annual ISCDC Flyer
29TH Annual ISCDC FLYER
Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course (ISCDC) 2025
July 21st - August 2nd 2025

​Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course (ISCDC) 2025 is a 13 day intensive training in ecological design , natural farming , seed saving, traditional foods & nutrition, alternative energy, earth building, earth restoration , natural healing , indigenous women in agriculture, midwifery , restoring community. This design course ,through a variety of methods demonstrates how many disciplines must be integrated into a whole system , using natures model of sustainability and diversity . Designing solutions through indigenous knowledge and wisdom. 
For more information on registration contact;
[email protected]
For more information on the course, contact ; Clayton [[email protected]]
More information will be posted in the TNAFA website soon [www.tnafa.org]

29th Annual ISCDC What to Expect 2025
What to expect 2025 ISCDC
29th Annual, Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design
“Indigenous solutions for a sustainable future”Dear Participant , student , learner , 

Welcome to the 28th Annual “Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course 2025 (“Indigenous Solutions for a Sustainable Future”) What is ISCDC :
ISCDC 2025 is a holistic indigenous approach based on traditional knowledge and practices (“putting the words of our elders and ancestors into actions” ) as a tool for community health, ecosystems understanding and management, traditional farming, traditional diets and nutrition, pattern understanding, Indigenous Women in agriculture, herbal processing, earth building , alternative energy , communal and global responsibilities.
 ISCDC takes a permaculture*** approach to sustainability. Permaculture is the harmonious integration of landscape and people, providing food, energy, shelter, and other needs in a sustainable way for all species. Permaculture is working with nature rather than against it; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than thoughtless action; of looking at systems to evolve beneficially towards a state of maximum natural productivity and abundance.
 The 28th Annual Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course is a thirteen-day intensive training in ecological design, natural farming and earth restoration, natural healing both human and Mother Earth, These strategies and objectives compliment the Permaculture methodology, which is: the conscious, holistic design and maintenance of biologically productive ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, balance and resilience of natural ecosystems.
29th Annual ISCDC Registration Form​
REGISTRATION FORM
​28th Annual Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course “Indigenous Solutions for a Sustainable Future”
 With a focus on indigenous women’s roles in sustainable community
July 21st - August 2nd , 2025 Northern New Mexico
The ISCDC 2025 registration is limited to indigenous peoples only
Each participant must complete application and return to the Traditional Native American Farmers Association (TNAFA) office at the below contact information. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS May 15th , 2025 
 
Mail to: PO Box 31267, Santa Fe, NM 87594
 or email to: Elaine Barraza [email protected]

29th Annual ISCDC Partial Scholarship Form

Partial Scholarship Form ISCDC 2025
The Traditional Native American Farmers Association (TNAFA) is an Affiliate Program of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit corporation.
 TNAFA ’s mission; “to revitalize traditional agriculture for spiritual and human need” The Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course (ISCDC) was first taught (1996) as a “Permaculture” design course and we used the syllabus from the International Permaculture Institute based in Tasmania Australia. Since the very first years we began to modify this course to best reflex our community priorities and cultures. The title of the course is currently changed to reflex these changes. TNAFA wishes to provide a healthy productive (13) day course to all that have an interest in creating a sound ecological , culturally appropriate future.
 TNAFA , seeks funding from private foundations to cover some cost to host this course. But we also request the student participants to “invest” in the success of the course. 
These scholarships are design to help students that wish to participate but have limited resources, we don’t want to turn people away, do too funds, but we also want participants to contribute and value this opportunity. If you wish to apply for any of this plans, please send a letter or email explaining why you wish to take this course, what you plan to do with this knowledge after the course. Also what you may have already been doing in your community. We have limited scholarship plans , selection will be determined by need and work already being done in community and funder agreement.
(TNAFA seeks funding to cover the partial scholarships, some funding sources request we support specific community demographic. Eg. rural, urban, youth, female etc.) 
Applications must be submitted by May 1, 2025
TNAFA will review all applications and provide determination by mid-June.
For more information or questions please email us; [email protected]
Clayton Brascoupe, Program Director TNAFA