Hidden Villa's Environmental Education Program
Hidden Villa's Environmental Education Program (HVEEP) was founded in 1970 as a hands-on environmental educational experience for young, school-aged children. The program “teaches concepts of ecology, organic food production and environmental education” by providing a direct and guided experience of Hidden Villa’s farm and wilderness land.

Farm Tours
The Farm Tour is a 1 ¼ hour-long tour targeted towards children 2-7 years old. The tour takes its visitors through various tactile and sensory experiences within Hidden Villa’s farm and garden. What does a root taste like? What does wool feel like? And where did that milk come from? Students will explore these questions and more as they walk through, touch, smell, even taste, the living world around them.

Farm and Wilderness Exploration
The Farm and Wilderness Exploration Program is targeted towards 2nd-6th graders. It begins with a two-hour classroom orientation, which introduces the concepts of ecology, stewardship, and the human’s relationship to the land. The classroom orientation is followed by a longer, 5-hour field trip at Hidden Villa. Here, students will observe the farm and wilderness as it relates to its urban surroundings.

Overnight and Farm Chore
Participants of the Overnight Program stay in cabins at the historic Hidden Villa Hostel—the first Hostel on the Pacific Coast (1937). Overnights can be either one or two nights long, and can be extensions of the Farm and Wilderness Exploration Program. The Farm Chore Program stresses group work, cooperation skills, and confidence building, while fostering an understanding of mutual dependency between people and their environment.

For more information on HVEEP’s programs, fees, and reservation instructions, view the HPEEV program brochure here.

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