PCC Vocational English as a Second Language Program Offers New Green Landscaping and Gardening Certificated Classes

Learn eco-friendly and water-efficient landscaping and gardening using native plants, and improve your English communication skills at the same time.

This is the opportunity that Pasadena City College’s Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) offers for gardeners and homeowners alike through a new free certificate program that’s currently open for enrollment.

The class meets twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the PCC Community Education Center. The current class includes students from Mexico, China, Korea and Indonesia.

Guest speakers from public agencies, community-based nonprofits, and local landscaping businesses are featured in the program, including staff from the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants, Pasadena Water and Power, the City of South Pasadena and the Chino Basin Water Conservation District.

Students will take field trips to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Huntington Gardens, and a tour of local model native plant gardens will be sponsored by the Theodore Payne Foundation.

Enrollment is ongoing, and students may register at any time, as long as space is available.

For more information, contact instructor Carolyn Corrie at (626) 585-3207 or email cjcorrie@pasadena.edu.