Programs

After a full day of school, give your child the chance to spend their afternoons exploring Hidden Villa’s farm and wilderness.

Late April is an especially fun time to pay special attention to birds. We will review slides of some local species and investigate nests from past seasons up close, before we step outside to respectfully observe some pre-scouted nest attempts in progress.

Learning to interpret the evidence that wild animals leave behind allows you to read the great 'book of nature' wherever you go, and to know what animals may be close to you, even when they remain hidden.

Feeling connected in nature can be an elusive goal on our own, but with guidance and a supportive community, it may become an attainable and transformative experience.

Earth Club balances learning, adventure, and fun as your student learns both hard and soft skills (such as journaling and teamwork) involved in becoming a skilled student of nature.

Come celebrate Earth Day, or any day, with bug-eyed wonder! Insects are cool, they're often beautiful, and insect benefits to humanity include critical ecosystem services such as pollination, decomposition, and sustenance for vast categories of vertebrate life such as birds and amphibians.

This class will be a celebration of these forgotten fauna, their beauty and strange adaptations, and of their beneficial roles in our lives, focusing on slides and taxidermied specimens to prepare you for those rare occasions when you do glimpse one in the wild.

Explore the world of nature writing! Poets and naturalists alike have found inspiration in connection with the outdoors.

Book a private session for 1-10 people and experience the simple practice of Forest Immersion at Hidden Villa with Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, Kira White.

Volunteer with Hidden Villa's property team and help us care for the 1600 acres, buildings, trails and landscaping.

Visit Hidden Villa and explore our education garden, discover our hiking trails and meet our farm animals. Reservations are encouraged, but not required. The property is open to visitors from 9:00am - 5:00pm.

We are so excited to be partnering with Riekes Nature Program this summer! They will be hosting three camps at Hidden Villa in the Los Altos Hills.

We are so excited to be partnering with Riekes Nature Programs this summer! They will be hosting three camps at Hidden Villa this summer.

We are so excited to be partnering with Riekes this summer! They will be hosting three camps at Hidden Villa in the Los Altos Hills.

Roots have a life of their own that may surprise you! For their part, shoots (or stems or ‘trunks’) facilitate a complex exchange of functions between above- and below-ground parts of plants. Join us to delve into those mysterious functions and processes, and watch some of them in action on the farm and in the forest.

Can't choose just one Seasonal Cycles Natural History Class? Purchase a bundle and get access to 4 classes at the discounted rate of $100.

Seeds do more to feed humanity than any other plant part, and the are incredibly diverse, often beautiful, and they exhibit awe-inspiring design features that allow them to survive, disperse, and thrive all across planet Earth.

Explore different ways of looking at nature, build your observation skills, and learn about tools to discover more information about the natural world.

Join us to admire wildflowers up close and in person on the trails of Hidden Villa. We will also investigate the evolutionary origin of flowers, their ecological importance, the various tricks they play on us animals, and more!

Experience the simple practice of Forest Immersion at Hidden Villa with Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, Kira White.

It’s surprisingly easy to find evidence of animals wherever you may be, once you start looking.

Scat is just one category of the myriad of phenomena that animals leave behind them.

We will rendezvous at Gazos Creek State Beach for some actual field tracking.