All Three Seeds visitors enjoy a wide variety of workshops and classes meant that teach about:
- living off the land
- organic agriculture
- farm-to-table meal preparation
- Costa Rican culinary arts and culture
- Spanish language
- English language
Group leaders can choose from a wide variety of seasonal activities and eco-cultural adventures.
Most activities end with very delicious food consumption, so don't come on a diet!
1. Cow-Milking Experience: Learn how to milk a cow! Every morning between 7-9am. Great for all ages. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
2. Cheese-Making Workshop: Learn how to make fresh queso fresco, a staple of Costa Rican farming families. Different variation of queso fresco are found throughout Latin America, including in Hispanic grocers in the U.S. Every morning between 7-9am after cow-milking. Great for all ages. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
3. Sugar Cane Juice Pressing Workshop: Learn how to make sugar cane juice! Gerardo will teach you how to make sugar cane juice using a hand-cranked trapiche. The sugar cane is grown organically on the farm. Sugar cane juice is used to sweeten fresco tropical drinks, coffee, etc. and is extremely yummy and refreshing as it is. Drink up! Great for all ages! Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
4. Organic Gardening Workshop: All visitors can put their green thumb to work at Tres Semillas Organic Farm. You can plant some seeds, uproot some yucca, cut some mangos, help harvest crops, weed some flowerbeds, water the herbs, create a new garden bed, sing to the plants and more...all garden enthusiasts must first receive the organic gardening workshop and farm tour first. Great for all ages! Offered in the mornings between 9-11am. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
5. Chocolate-Making Workshop: Learn how to harvest de cacao pod, process the seeds and make chocolate products like brownies, pudding and choco-cake. Eat up! Great for all ages! Offered in the afternoons, between 1-3pm. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
6. Fresh Corn Tamales Workshop: Learn how to make fresh organic Costa Rican corn tamales from scratch! Great for children ages 7+ Eat up! Offered in the mornings - goes into the afternoon. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
7. Chorriadas Workshop: Learn how to make a Costa Rican special, chorriadas, made with fresh organic corn that first has to be grinder in the old-school way! Finish the workshop enjoying warm and fresh chorriadas with fresh natilla (home-made cream). Great for all ages! Offered in the mornings or afternoons. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
8. Tamal-Asado Workshop: Learn how to make tamal asado, a traditional Costa Rican sweet corn bread pudding made with masa (corn flower) or organic corn. Delicious treat to have as a mid afternoon snack with milk, tea or coffee! Great for all ages! Offered in the mornings or afternoons. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
9. Pizza-Making Workshop: Learn how to make pizza from scratch and help fill it with toppings from the garden! Great for all ages! Offered in the morning or afternoons. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
10. Pupusa-Making Workshop: Learn how to make Salvadoran pupusas, the official food of El Salvador - made from fresh ground corn or masa. This traditional food consists of corn cakes filled with melted cheese, beans, and/or pork. Great for all ages! Offered in the mornings or afternoons. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
11. Empanada-Making Workshop: Learn how to make Costa Rican empanadas, a traditional food with many variations throughout Latin America. Made with fresh, farm-grown ingredients. Can be 100% in Spanish or in English.
12. Spanish through the Arts: A fun and arts-based Spanish immersion experience for the whole family involving nature art, paining, arts can crafts, movement, stories and songs. Only offered in the summers during select Family Camps when Conexiones Institute resident teachers are on the farm. Great for all ages!
13. Spanish through Fun: An intentional Spanish immersion experience tailored to whatever games and playtime activities the participants enjoy! Only offered in the summers during select Family Camps when Conexiones Institute resident teachers are on the farm. Great for all ages!
14. Costa Rica AVENTURAS: An engaging Spanish through outdoor adventures experience that teaches Spanish vocabulary through educational hikes in the rainforest and activities around the farm. Only offered in the summers during select Family Camps when Conexiones Institute resident teachers are on the farm. Great for all ages!
