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Tuesdays or Fridays | 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Ages 6–12 | September to June
The Passport Program is a full-day, outdoor learning experience designed to inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence. Each week, students spend the day on the farm exploring, learning, and building meaningful connections. Passport invites children to notice beauty, develop new skills, and grow in community through hands-on experiences.
Program Rhythm
Each Passport day is structured around five 45-minute classes, giving students a balanced, engaging, and hands-on learning experience. Every class is designed to build real-world skills, spark curiosity, and nurture character.
- Barn: Students learn to care for and work alongside farm animals through daily barn chores, grooming, and feeding. Alongside this hands-on work, they explore lessons in animal science, STEM concepts, and farm studies.
- Art: This is a skills-based class, where students build on what they’ve learned over the course of the year. Each lesson is intentional and progressive, helping students strengthen artistic techniques and develop their creative abilities with growing independence and confidence.
- Life Skills: This class focuses on both practical modern skills and the “forgotten” handiwork of earlier generations. Students learn sewing, handcrafts, cooking, baking, and other useful home and farm skills that encourage independence, attention to detail, and a strong work ethic.
- Body in Motion (PE): All activities in this class are play-based, allowing students to build strength, coordination, and teamwork through games and movement. The emphasis is on joyful activity and the natural development of physical skills.
- Plants, Gardens & Bugs: In this class, students explore gardening, sustainable growing practices, soil health, and composting, while learning about plant science, earth science, and the essential role of bugs, worms, and spiders in the ecosystem. Culinary experiences—like harvesting and preparing simple foods—connect their work in the garden to real-life skills and farm-to-table living.
Program Highlights
Beyond the daily rhythm, Passport is full of memorable experiences and opportunities for growth. Some of our favorite traditions and unique learning moments include:
- Baby goats arriving every spring
- Students helping to raise chicks several times a year
- Growing food from seed to harvest in the farm garden
- Every class includes meaningful, hands-on learning
- Students create several take-home projects each session
- Many lessons can be submitted to your charter school for credit
- A welcoming community atmosphere where students build lasting friendships
- Passport offers students the chance to learn, grow, and thrive in a setting that values curiosity, community, and connection to the natural world.
Enrollment & Tuition
- Tuition: $316 per month (billed every 4 weeks)
- Enrollment: Families register by session (Fall, Winter, Spring) with the option to pay in 4-week installments.
- Registration Fee: $75 per student for the first two students in a family.
- Aftercare & Early Drop-Off: Optional one-hour aftercare or early drop-off available for $20/day. Must be arranged by the month.
- Charter Funds Accepted: PCA, MVA, SunCoast, SoCal Scholars, and Sparrow. Charter commitments are made by semester (Fall, Winter, Spring).
- Flexible Start: Students may enroll any time during the school year, based on availability determined by birth date.
Family Flexibility
Passport runs alongside our Greenhouse Kinder Program, giving families flexibility and creating a shared farm experience for siblings of different ages. Many families choose to enroll multiple children on the same day, allowing everyone to learn and grow in their own age-appropriate program.
Want to learn more about Greenhouse? ➝ Explore the Greenhouse Program
Children need to be challenged and pushed, not to the point where they give up but just to the point where they think: Wow, look at me go!
- Robert John Meehan