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
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 (Saturday), 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 (Saturday), 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. We will also have a table with free pollinator friendly seeds and info promoting the new invasives removal campaign.
April 11 (Saturday), 12pm-2pm: Sarah Michaels Park Spring Garden Refresh and Pollinator Planter Demo. Want a garden but don’t have the space – no problem! Stop by to pick up complimentary pollinator friendly seeds and learn how to plant a beautiful planter that will have the pollinators flocking! (Raindate Sunday)
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. We’ll also be showing how to remove invasive vines from the border fencing. They are hosts to the dreaded Spotted Lantern Fly.
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 18 (Saturday), 10am-2pm: Friends of the Riverwalk Work Day. With the severe weather the region has experienced, pruning will be our focus, secondary only to trash removal. Early invasive removal will follow. We hope you will join us as spring unfolds and being outside is again a pleasure. There will be gloves, bags and tools available for adults and kids. We will be happy to show you areas we recommend for work. Please join us to help keep the RiverWalk clean and beautiful.
April 18 (Saturday), 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 19 (Sunday), 8am: Morning Bird Walk. Join Yoni Rabino, 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. Please bring binoculars!
Village Board listening sessions:
April 20 (Monday), 7pm (Tarrytown)
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 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), 10am-12:00: Neperan Park Earth Month Celebration. Join TEAC and Little Gardens of Tarrytown 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.
April 26 (Sunday), 10am-1pm: Lakes Clean-Up. Come Join Hackley’s Lake Keepers at their Earth Month clean up on Sunday, April 26, 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 Tarrytown Lower Lake.
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!