Kitchen Classrooms

•To create a teaching learning garden that will be useful in many ways. To be named the Cultivation Station because it will be used to cultivate soil, plants, minds, community and spirituality. 

"We OLive the World" is a program started by Stile Mediterraneo - the Mediterranean Cooking School in Puglia Italy.

Goal of the program is to improve people's health and wellbeing through the Mediterranean food and education.

Stile Mediterraneo is run by food experts, olive oil experts and doctors.

They have developed this unique program (We Olive the World) through which people learn two things:

Kids learn how to create delicious healthy snacks, salads and desserts with seasonal organic ingredients from local farmers markets. Farm Style Cooking classes celebrate the joy of tasting, touching, smelling and experiencing the foods we make and share with others.

Farm Style Cooking For Kids can be found at the Mar Vista Farmers Market and Beethoven Elementary School.

A hallmark of an Orchard education, Outdoor Education is education in, about, and for the out of doors. In an increasingly urban world, nature plays a central part in the education of the whole child. Direct experiences help students gain a deeper understanding of life around them, foster respect and an understanding of the interrelationships within the natural environment, and develop an appreciation of people's interdependence with the natural world.