Sustainable Sleepy Hollow

The SHEAC team has organized a series of free events to celebrate not only on Earth Day April 22nd, but the whole Earth Month!  There will be opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to team up with their neighbors to help our local environment and learn about eco practices we can incorporate into our day-to-day.

Mark your calendars and invite friends to join you at these Earth Month events:

• 4/8, 10-12 pm at Peabody Preserve: Welcome the Pollinators! Come and help prepare the Pollinator & Butterfly Garden for Spring by weeding, thinning out the perennials, and more. Bring gloves, pruning tools, and shovels; if you’d like to bring home seedlings from the garden, bring plastic pots too.
• 4/15, 10am-2pm: Repair Cafe (The Neighborhood House, 43 Wildey Street, Tarrytown–behind Patriot’s Park) Bring those fix-it items collecting dust in your home to our village’s first ever Repair Cafe! Repair Cafes are free community events that aim to keep our stuff out of the trash through volunteer fixers, menders, tinkerers, and people who just love to take things apart and put them back together again. We will have volunteers on hand to repair bikes, lamps, jewelry, textiles, appliances, electronics, and much more. Further details are available here.
• 4/22, 10 am -12 pm at Peabody Preserve: Calling the Trail Crew! Help ensure that our trails are safe and welcoming to students and teachers who will visit throughout the Spring. Bring gloves and shovels if you have any.
• 4/22, 10am -12 pm: SHEAC Annual Earth Day Litter Cleanup event (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED): SHEAC is partnering with a local Girl Scout troop to clean the streets of downtown Sleepy Hollow. SHEAC volunteers will meet at Reverend Sykes Park (the corner of Valley St. and Wildey St.) at 10 am, and proceed up Valley Street together. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes, and bring gardening gloves if you have them. Volunteer spots are limited; register here.
• 4/22, 12 pm: SHEAC Earth Day Volunteer Celebration in Barnhart Park: Whether you spend your Earth Day morning volunteering in Peabody, downtown or elsewhere, join us to celebrate a job well done! SHEAC will provide pizza, drinks and snacks until they run out. We’ll have information about environmental initiatives in our Village, from the food scraps composting program to our safe streets study and more. 
• 4/23, 3:00 pm: Environmental Storytime at Sleepy Hollow Bookshop (95 Beekman Ave, Sleepy Hollow) Come join us for wonderful children’s stories about nature and the environment.

More in the Villages

This year you have double the opportunities to dig into Earth Month: along with the above events, our friends at TEAC (Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council) have organized a juicy lineup of Earth Day events, including:  

• Meet the Village Arborist and Learn about Local Trees (4/1)
• Lakes Trail Hike (4/23) 
• Film Screening: The Story of Plastic (4/23)
• Bird Walk (4/22)

Check out the full lineup here.

Protecting our planet doesn’t end with Earth Month. Stay tuned for May announcements and join your neighbors in volunteering!