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Upstate California's Premier Environmental Event 
The Whole Earth and Watershed Festival

Next Year: Saturday April 27, 2013

It's Always the 4th Saturday of April!

The 2012 Festival had something for everyone:      

• More than 115 exhibitors (including government agencies, businesses, educational organizations, community groups, and local non-profits) with great hand's-on activities and lots of give aways
• Sustainability Quest  for all attendees with awesome prizes from local businesses and organizations
• Great food from several local restaurants
• Live music throughout the day on 2 stages: River Stage Schedule featuring local musicians and dancers and the Mountain Stage Schedule with the talented musicians from Redding School of the Arts
• The opportunity to provide the ultimate in recycling at the Blood Source Bloodmobile
• E-Waste drop off by Gone for Free (at back of City Hall)
• Used Medical Equipment drop off by Independent Living Services (at back of City Hall)
• The Shasta Growers Farmers’ Market will have extended hours until 3pm
• A Baby Wearing Fashion Show at 11:00am on Shasta Stage
• Guarded Bike Corral in the Sculpture Park by Shasta Wheelmen Bike Club

A Wide Variety of Activities for children and youth:

• The Watershed Passport Program (for students in k-12th grades)  ***Chance to win prizes!    
• The Shasta College Kid's Activities (for kids 12 and under)  ***Great activities!
• The Earth First Young Children's Zone(Children 0-8 and their families) a featured event in First 5 Shasta's Week of the Young Child     ***Over 20 different activities!

AND…Getting to the Festival was full of fun: 

Family Bicycling Day:  Shasta Living Streets is bringing Redding's second OPEN STREET EVENT back again as part of the 2012 Festival. It is the ONLY one of it's kind  north of Sacramento and it will be the  COOLEST WAY to get to the Festival on April 28th from 10am to 3pm along Park Marina Drive.  The street will be closed at Athens all the way under the Cypress Bridge to Parkview so that it can be filled with bikes, skateboards, dancers, zumba, musicians, peds and any other non-motorized entity. It makes getting to the Festival not only safe and GREEN but very fun!  

RABA and the Festival Organizers offered a FREE RIDE DAY on all buses on April 28th as well as an Event Shuttle between the Sundial Bridge parking and City Hall from 10am to 3pm. Routes 3, 5 and 11 will drop off at City Hall. 

TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK offered $5 admission to the museum on April 28th to non-members. Make plans to include a visit to the museum as part of your day!

So make plans to join our north state community on Saturday April 27th 2013 at the Whole Earth and Watershed Festival in celebration of  EARTH DAY (April 22nd) and WATERSHED AWARENESS MONTH (May). It’s sure to be an experience you and your family, friends, and neighbors will not want to miss!

Many people ask:  What is sustainability?

"Sustainability is improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems"