Celebrating Earth Month!!
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By Jenny O'Connor, TEAC member.
Photos by Suzy Allman, TEAC member

April was a wonderful month of activities celebrating Earth Day in Tarrytown!

During Earth Month, we:

• explored trails by the lakes and learned about native trees, invasive species, birds, and some of Tarrytown’s history.
• cleaned up trash, debris and invasive vines across the village, in neighborhoods, parks, schools and around the lakes.
• Planted native seeds and gardens;
• hosted Tarrytown’s first Repair Cafe, helping community members fix household and personal items, and avoiding increased waste being sent to  the incinerator (aka waste to energy plant).  
• learned about the nasty lifecycle of plastics in a film screening of The Story of Plastic.
• hosted a Clothing and Household Swap, where people donated gently used items and “shopped” for “new” items to take home. 

Thank you to all of the people who volunteered! We had hundreds of children, adults and community members join us throughout the month. 

Thank you to the Hackley Lake Keepers, Repair Cafe of Hudson Valley, the Neighborhood House, Girl Scouts, Eric Stone from the Rewilding School, the Horsemen PTA, MOMs Organic Market, the volunteer Arborist, the Village of Tarrytown, community leaders and fellow TEAC members who organized, supported and led events.

What an amazing tribute to our village and earth! Your support is a testament that we can truly save the earth, one village at a time.

An early bird watch at Tarrytown Lakes kicked off events on the official, annual Earth Day. 


Tarrytown Mayor Karen Brown and Rich Slingerland pitch in with an EF student to keep a Neperan Road parking lot clean.


The hiking crew stops for a rest along the newly-blazed red trail, in the Glenville Woods.


The busy scene at the computer and electrical tables at the Repair Cafe....