Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow
Events for 2026
The Tarrytown Environmental Advisory Council (TEAC) and Sustainable Sleepy Hollow (SSH) are joining forces for a powerful series of Earth Month events. Please sign up for events below!
2026 Events – Tentative
Soon: Click the BOLD DATES to go to event details and to sign up
March 29 (Sunday), 10am-2pm: TarryHollow Repair Cafe. Bring your small broken or non-working household items and appliances to the Sleepy Hollow Senior Center, where our volunteer repair coaches will use their expertise and tools to help get them back in shape for free!
April 4 and 11 (Saturdays), 10am-Noon: TEAC Vine Squad. Calling all outdoor enthusiasts and tree lovers… Come meet some new folks, get a little exercise and save our trees from vicious, invasive vines! Meet at the Hikers’ Parking Lot at Wilson Park Drive and Tower Hill Road.
April 11 or 18, Seed Giveaway: TK
April 11, 9am-12:30 pm: Compost Giveback Day. Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow gardeners… Grab your empty bins and buckets and join us to take home the compost that has been produced by our Villages’ Food Scrap Recycling programs. Stop by the Sleepy Hollow High School Admin Building Parking Lot – before or after your trip to the TASH farmers market – to take up to two large containers of free compost for your home garden.
April 12 (Sunday), 9-12pm: Community Garden Prep. We’ll be cleaning up and enriching the soil with fresh compost at the Community Vegetable Garden between the Paulding School and Cobb Lane, getting it ready for planting.
April TK (Dean has reached out), 10am-2pm: Friends of the Riverwalk Workday. Our mission remains the same: Assisting the Parks Department staff in establishing and maintaining plants, infrastructure and amenities. Regular Workday activities have evolved to include: removal of trash and invasives and the pruning of shrubs and small trees with the guidance of Anthony Ross, Parks Superintendent
April 18 (Saturday), 10am-12:30pm: Green Horsemen Family Festival. The Village of Sleepy Hollow, on behalf of both Villages, is sponsoring TUFSD’s Green Horsemen Family Saturday, at Barnhardt Park. All are welcome to join for a grab & go breakfast (compliments of the TaSH Farmers Market) and activities including environmental crafts, pollinator friendly seed and tree giveaway, vendors, face painting, and a bouncy castle.
April 19 (Sunday), 7am: Morning Bird Walk with Yoni Rabino. TK confirm Yoni Rabino is an experienced birder, bird walk leader, and ‘lister’ who is deeply embedded in the local and migratory birds of the east coast and has experience identifying both by sound and sight. Park at the Tarrytown Lakes Parking Lot; our group will follow the Andre Brook Trail which connects through Sleepy Hollow to the High School Parking Lot. We will have vehicles at the end point that can shuttle people back to cars parked at the Lakes after the walk. Please bring binoculars!
“Use our Power, Speak for Our Planet” Earth Day listening sessions:
April 20 (Monday), 7pm (Tarrytown) & April 14 (Tuesday), 7pm (Sleepy Hollow) TK confirm dates/times
Commit to showing up at your village’s Board of Trustees meeting for a special session where Trustees will ask residents to speak briefly about our environmental priorities. Bring your own short list, or choose one from the issues below (UPDATE TK) facing our community. Kids very welcome!
- Gas leaf blower ordinances (local)
- Safe Streets for All – priority projects for pedestrian & bike safety (local)
- Village food scrap recycling expansion (such as residential compost pickup)
- Better Bottle Bill (NY State proposal)
- NY Heat Act (NY State proposal)
- Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (NY State proposal)
April 24 (Friday) – Arbor Day in Sleepy Hollow: Tree-planting event with SPEAR students at high school, late morning near the high school on Chestnut Street.
April TK – Arbor Day in Tarrytown: Tree-planting event in Patriots Park with John Paulding School students.
April 25 (Saturday), 9am-5pm Village Free Day: Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown Residents are invited to put usable items they no longer want by their curb. Browse your neighborhood for treasures; if anything is left by your curb at the end of the day, please bring it back inside.
April 25 (Saturday): RISN Energy Fair – Dean will lead for TEAC – TK
April 26 (Sunday), 10am-1pm: Lakes Clean-Up. Come Join Hackley’s Lake Keepers at their Earth Month clean up on Sunday, April 27, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Meet at the Tarrytown Lakes parking lot on Neperan Avenue and Sunnyside Avenue and look for our table. Stop by for an hour or stay for the entire time. Gloves, trash pickers, and bags will be provided. Bring your friends and family and come help clean up the trails surrounding our beautiful lakes! Refreshments will be served.
April 26 (Sunday): Kayak Cleanup in Lower Lake: TK
Other cleanups TK: Neperan, Devries
May 2 (Saturday), 10am-12pm, Riverkeeper Sweep: Two starting locations, Tarrytown Losee Park Lot G and Sleepy Hollow Horan’s Landing. From Losee Park to Kingsland Point Park, we will sweep plastic and other waste out of the riverfront and into the right place!
May TK, 10am-12:00: Neperan Park Earth Month Celebration. Join TEAC and Little Gardens of Tarrytown on Saturday 4/26 from 10am to 12:00pm when we celebrate Earth Month with a free spring seed planting event for kids along with complimentary pollinator friendly seeds to help you start your spring gardens. We also invite you to help us prepare our Neperan gardens for spring by removing invasives and preparing beds for new plantings. This is a great opportunity to learn about native plants and garden care. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring garden gloves and a long sleeved shirt.