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Gardening Basics: Growing Your Greenthumb
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Gardening Basics: Growing Your Greenthumb
Ready to grow your green thumb? Our Gardening Basics course is the perfect place to start! Designed specifically for beginners, this hands-on class covers everything you need to know to successfully start and maintain a vibrant, healthy garden.
You'll gain the skills and confidence to grow your own flowers, herbs, and vegetables, whether you have a large backyard, a small balcony, or just a few pots on a windowsill.
Start the Class Sweetly
To welcome you, all participants will receive a complimentary coffee or tea paired with a delicious bag of beignets!
Essential Skills You Will Master
In this foundational class, we will cover the core elements of successful gardening:
- Understanding Your Foundation: Decoding soil composition and mastering proper sunlight requirements.
- Plant Selection: Choosing the right flowers, herbs, and vegetables for your space and climate.
- Watering Techniques: Mastering efficient and effective methods to keep your plants thriving.
- Garden Maintenance: Simple tips for keeping your garden healthy and productive season after season.
No experience is necessary! Join us to discover just how rewarding and fun gardening can be.
Sign up today and take the first step toward transforming your space into a green oasis!
Date(s): Session 1: April 4th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Saturday
Time: 9:00am- 11:00am
Location: Plantable 2018 California St, Redding, CA 96001
Facilitator: Leilani Henderson
Fee: $40.00
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Comedy 101
with Dan McGowan
Comedy 101
This 6-week course teaches you the basics of learning how to write and perform jokes in front of a live audience! This class is perfect for the person who would like to take their natural gift for comedy to the next level.
Date(s): Session 1: April 9th- May 14th, 2026
Schedule: 6- Thursdays
Time: 6:30pm- 8:00pm
Location: Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St, Redding, CA 96001 Room 9205
Facilitator: Dan McGowan
Fee: $60.00
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Container Gardening Workshop: Growing Hope in Every Pot
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Container Gardening Workshop: Growing Hope in Every Pot
Join us at Plantable for a hands-on workshop that blends creativity, natural beauty, and profound purpose. You’ll learn the art of designing and planting your own thriving container garden—perfect for patios, porches, or any small space—all while supporting a mission that helps people grow in every sense of the word.
Kickstart Your Creativity & Learning
We're starting the class off with a sweet welcome! All participants will receive a complimentary coffee or tea paired with a delicious bag of beignets!
What You'll Learn to Create
Together, we will dig in and explore the practical skills needed for success in your garden:
- Regional Expertise: How to choose containers, soil, and plants that thrive specifically in our Redding climate.
- Vibrant & Water-Wise Design: Tips for creating colorful, sustainable combinations that attract and support pollinators.
- Small Space Gardening: Proven techniques for successfully growing herbs, flowers, and vegetables in limited spaces.
- Mindful Living: Connecting with the joy and peace that comes from tending to living things.
What You’ll Need
Each participant will plant and take home their own custom-designed container garden. You can bring your own container to plant up or purchase one here at Plantable. You will receive a 30% discount on containers, potting soil, and plants that you choose for your masterpiece!
Come learn something new, get your hands dirty, and be part of a story that’s transforming both people and land—one pot at a time.
Date(s): Session 1: April 11th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Saturday
Time: 9:00am- 11:00am
Location: Plantable 2018 California St, Redding, CA 96001
Facilitator: Nicki Thieme
Fee: $85.00
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Incident Safety Awareness For Hired Vendors (College of the Siskiyous)
with Greg McFadden
Incident Safety Awareness for Hired Vendors (College of the Siskiyous)
This course is held at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, CA. This course provides an awareness of fireline and incident safety to hired vendors who plan to engage in wildland fire suppression and other incident support activities. It includes an overview of hazards and safety issues, entrapment avoidance, incident organization, how to recognize and mitigate risk, maintain safe work practices while working under an agency supervision, fire shelter deployment, and case studies.
Designed For: Hired vendors working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) or the United States Forest Service (USFS) on any active incident, including water tender operators, heavy equipment drivers or operators, crew bus drivers, vehicles with a driver, mechanics, fallers, and swampers.
Authority: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and United State Forest Service (USFS) agreements
Standard: State Fire Training (SFT) requires every student to attend the entire course, participate in classroom and group discussions, complete and pass all activities, and complete an oral evaluation.
Date(s): April 11th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Saturday
Time: 9:00am- 5:00pm
Location: College of the Sikiyous 800 College Ave, Weed, CA 96094- Room 3 (Distance Learning Center)
Facilitator: Greg McFadden
Fee: $200.00
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Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results
with Jenn Snider
Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results
When your work depends on input from people, the quality of your questions matters. This practical workshop teaches you how to ask better questions—whether you’re planning programs, interviewing job candidates, gathering client feedback, or running a quick survey.
You’ll learn how to write clear, unbiased questions, choose effective response options, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to confusing answers. Designed for beginners, this class is friendly, hands-on, and immediately useful. You’ll leave with simple tools and templates you can apply right away.
Date(s): Session 1: April 16th, 2026
1- Thursday
Session 2: April 22nd, 2026
1- Wednesday
Schedule: 1- Wednesday or Thursday
Time: Wednesday 9:00am- 11:00am
Thursday 5:30pm- 7:30pm
Location: Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St, Redding, CA 96001 Room 9301
Facilitator: Jenn Snider
Fee: $75.00
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Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel
with Rio Miner
Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel
Improve your MS Excel use with this refresher course. Learn to quickly review, analyze, and interpret data using MS Excel tricks, formulas, tables, and graphs.Become a better Excel spreadsheet user with this practical skill-enhancing class. Use simple tricks to quickly see patterns, identify outliers, and visualize the numbers better than ever. Learn useful Excelfunctions and formulas to make operations more efficient and identify problems before they grow. If understanding data is key to your business, let us help you unlock the analytical power of Excel.Course Overview:
1. Sort & filter; Conditional formatting; Text-to-Columns
2. How to create a pivot table and recognize patterns in large datasets
3. How to use basic & intermediate formulas
4. Quick Check formulas: sum, count, and average
Date(s): Session 1: April 16th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Wednesday
Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm
Location: Shasta College Health Sciences 1400 Tehama St Redding CA 96001 Room 8113
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $50.00
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Certified Flagger Training Course (College of the Siskiyous)
with Korey Conry
Certified Flagger Training Course
Learn how to be a safe and effective flagger with ATSSA’s certified flagger training courses. Understand why proper flagger operations are important and learn the standard skillset of a good flagger. Apply and identify standard work zone flagger control references and learn standard flagger practices for various situations. Certification is good for 4 years.
Date(s): Session 1: April 18th, 2026
Schedule: 1 - Saturday
Time: 8:00am- 12:00pm
Location: College of the Siskiyous 800 College Ave, Weed, CA 96094- Room 3 (Distance Learning Center)
Facilitator: Korey Conry
Fee: $75 (Regular fee $150.00. Reduced pricing brought to you by Strong Workforce Program funding)
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Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
with Bob Reich
Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
Whether you are asking for organizational contributions, selling school fundraising items, putting on an event, or other requests, is asking for and bringing in funds to support your organization or program a challenge? You are not alone. You don’t have to apologize when asking for support and contributions for your organization. In this course you will learn techniques to bring in funds and resources for your project or organization. This workshop is valuable for staff, Boards, volunteers, and anyone who is involved with raising funds for your nonprofit organization.
Date(s): Session 1: April 22nd- May 6th, 2026
Schedule: 3- Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Virtual Via Zoom- Link to be sent prior to class
Facilitator: Bob Reich
Fee: $110.00
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Note: The instructor will email the Zoom link to all participants prior to the start of class.