SunHive
Farm School
SunHive
Farm School
Co-creating awareness, connection and coherence inside the hearts of our children and thus our community. When we collaborate in inspired learning we shape the future.
For us, Holistic Learning is an emergent and experiential learning model, where open-ended exploration leads to informative reflection - bridging life skills, observation of nature, and entrepreneurship. Child-led interests and creative endeavors are always mirrored in the framework of daily lessons.
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Connecting our Community in San Marcos' 1st
Holistic Learning,
nature + wellness,
Language Immersion MicroSchool
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Our Core Values
Educating the whole human being.
Analytical, creative, and flexible thinking.
Rigorous academics.
Comprehensive artistic experiences.
Kindness and compassion.
Gratitude and reverence.
Humor and play.
Wonder and innocence.
The learning process is essentially threefold, engaging head, heart, and hands—or thinking, feeling, and doing.
A brief summary (Full website coming soon)
Our Structure:
5 Seasons/Phases: Spring, Summer, Late Summer, Fall, Winter
Seasonal Morning Mantra chanting and vocal cord warmup.
Mindful Movement (Warm up yoga, Somatic Shaking + fun, intuitive dance) - later grades will learn Sun Salutation.
- Fire: Play (Passion and Project Based Learning, Creative Arts, Music, Wildcrafting)
- Earth: Safety (Inner and Outer Navigation, Somatic Experiencing, Culinary Arts, Medicine Making)
- Metal: Refinement (Cultivation of Inner Wisdom, Intellectual, Emotional and Social Intelligence)
- Water: Spirit (Taoist and Vedic Philosophy, Oneness, Ceremony and Ritual, Unfolding Dharma)
- Wood: Growth (Physical and Subtle Body Wellness, Food Growing Skills, Entrepreneurship)
taoist nature school
At SunHive, children connect with the earth by planting, cultivating, and harvesting their own food. Through this hands-on experience, they develop responsibility, patience, and a deep respect for the cycles of nature. Preparing meals together teaches life skills, teamwork, and the joy of nourishing their bodies with food they’ve grown themselves.
Why It Matters: This pillar nurtures not only the body but also the mind and spirit, fostering independence and a lifelong appreciation for sustainability and healthy living.
Root to Rise: Growing Food, Growing Minds
Creativity is the heart of learning at SunHive. From painting vibrant murals to composing melodies inspired by nature, children are encouraged to express themselves and explore their unique talents. Art and music are woven into every aspect of our curriculum, ensuring that creativity remains the keystone of both their education and their future endeavors.
Why It Matters: Studies show that creativity fuels innovation, problem-solving, and emotional well-being. By fostering creativity early, we prepare children to think boldly and live authentically.
The Creative Hive: Music, Art, and Imagination
SunHive students bring their creativity and hard work to life by participating in local markets. They learn to sell their homegrown food and handmade art, developing skills in communication, money management, and ethical entrepreneurship. These experiences empower children to understand the value of their contributions and their place in the wider community.
Why It Matters: Navigating the world of selling teaches adaptability, confidence, and critical thinking—skills that are essential in the 21st century. By engaging in entrepreneurial activities, children learn how to create opportunities and share their gifts with the world.
Little Luminaries: Entrepreneurial Adventures
The SunHive Framework:
Cultivating Minds, Creativity, and Community
This way, the children can grow, harvest and prepare foods for themselves and bring these foods home to the family.
Not only does this connect their Mind+Body+Spirit to food, nature and their ecosystem, but gives them a sense of worthiness and pride.
The children will also develop their interests here: to sell to at a farm stand or the Farmers Market:
- do they like to prepare the snacks?
- do they like to make sauces, herbal medicines?
- do they like to make candles, soaps, crafts, etc?
- and so much more!
Entrepreneurship and the exchanging of money for goods and services will be a joyful and empowering experience for them where they learn hands on, the skills and values of real world exchange.
Food, Money, Spirit
Farm to School to Table to Market
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33
As a Cooperative Movement, parents will not only be involved, but also educated.
As parents we have a lot to teach - and to learn.
At SunHive parents/guardians will be a part of the hive, sharing the wisdom they have gathered with the community.
This will look like leading activities for the children featuring parent's talents as well as simple volunteer days.
We'll also hold workshops that all members will participate in.
At the heart of these workshops, we'll explore our place in the world as humans and as guides to these little humans. As we shed the illusion that we are in control we can then lead our children into their destiny. The loss of illusion might then crack our hearts open to belonging to something far greater than our single selves, caring for and being cared for by others, something so crucial to the human being.
To know we are an intrinsic part of the Earth Community - both human and non-human - is one guiding principle that we aim to model for our children here.