Earth Month Activities 2022

Bioblitz Zoom: Watch the Recording
Our 3rd Annual Bioblitz starts April 1st and runs the entire month! Learn all about it - or refresh your memory - with Patrick McKenzie. A bioblitz is a roundup of what's happening in nature through community science crowd-sourcing using iNaturalist. When conducted every year, it can give a sense of how an ecosystem changes over time. It's fun and easy! All you need to do is start taking pictures in iNaturalist.

April 1st, Friday

  • Bioblitz begins. All month long, take pictures of what you see in nature or in your yard in iNaturalist and it will automatically register as part of this communtiy science project.

April 2nd, Saturday

  • FCWC Youth Climate Action Summit, 9:30a-1p. By and for all young people on an innovative virtual platform. Geared for and curated by HS and college-age kids and middle schoolers with an avid interest in environmental issues. Free.
  • Hastings Pollinator Pathway Seed Swap, 9:30a-1p. C'mon down to the Hastings Farmers' Market at the train station parking lot and give or get seeds. Free.
  • Vine Squad, 11a-1p. Lop invasive vines in the Lenoir Nature Preserve with Vine Squad special guest, Adam Hart. Learn your vines; equipment provided! Free.

April 3, Sunday

April 6, Wednesday

April 9, Saturday

  • HW Nature Series10-11am. Geology Walk in Hillside Woods with Jeff Rappaport, professor of Earth science and physics at Manhattan College. Sign up here. $10pp.

April 10, Sunday

April 12th, Tuesday

April 19, Tuesday

  • A Chicken Chat, 7pm: Watch the recording. A discussion with local residents who keep chickens (we know of at least 15!), and who will tell you all you ever wanted to know. On Zoom, free.

April 20th, Wednesday

  • Climate Smart Communities Task Force Public Session on Climate Action Planning, 7pm. This in-person session invites the public to comment on and offer ideas on how to best prepare for climate changes and how to mitigate our collective impact. James Harmon Community Center, Free.

April 21st, Thursday

  • Compost Round Table Discussion, 6:45pm. Join Hudson Compost Services on a tour of South Presbyterian Church's garden composting system, managed by Roots & Wings, followed by a backyard composting presentation. South Pres is at 343 Broadway, in Dobbs Ferry.

April 22nd, Earth Day!

April 23, Saturday

  • Village-Wide Clean Up - all weekend! Email loreilly@hastingsgov.org to reserve your cleanup site. This is an annual event - and yet there is always litter to remove from our town. Remember: Many of our storm sewers drain directly into the river, so plastic left on the ground will likely make its way into the Hudson River and then into the Atlantic Ocean! Plastic in our waterways harms marine life.
  • Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct Clean Up, 8:30am. At Walnut Street in Yonkers. Mayor Mike Spano will hold a press conference, followed by the cleanup.
  • The Great Saw Mill River Clean Up, 10am-1pm. Join Groundwork Hudson Valley at one of their multiple locations along Saw Mill River.
  • Celebrate Trails Day on the OCA in Irvington, 1pm-3pm. On the Aqueduct, between Main Street and West Clinton Ave. Help remove invasives and plant a pollinator garden!
  • Bocce Ball Court Ribbon-cutting Ceremony, 1:30pm. Join Village officials in Riverview Park to welcome this latest addition to Hastings recreation.

April 24, Sunday

  • Village-Wide Clean Up - all weekend! Email loreilly@hastingsgov.org to reserve your cleanup site. This is an annual event - and yet there is always litter to remove from our town. Remember: Many of our storm sewers drain directly into the river, so plastic left on the ground will likely make its way into the Hudson River and then into the Atlantic Ocean! Plastic in our waterways harms marine life.
  • Take It or Leave It! TILI Garage open, 11a-3p
  • HW Nature Series11a-12p. Plant I.D. walk along the Algonquin Trail with Devon Cummings & Haven Colgate  Sign up here - free.

April 27th, Wednesday

  • Hudson River Audubon Society presents Birdsong in Classical Music, 7:30pm, via Zoom. Ruth DeFord PhD, Hastings resident and Professor Emerita of Music History, will discuss ways in which classical composers, including Handel, Beethoven, and Messiaen, incorporated imitations of birdsong into their music - free.

April 29th, Friday

April 30, Saturday

  • Rivertowns Repair Café, 11a-3p. Bring your broken items to volunteer fixers, another ZWAT waste-reduction initiative. This month's Café will be located at the Irvington Public Library, and all are welcome.
  • Sakura Matsuri, 12-4pm. Live performances, activities, and community haiku: Hastings annual cherry tree festival, at Villard and Broadway pocket park.
  • HW Nature Series12:30pm & 2pm. Join a Bug Walk with Lawrence Forcella, erstwhile Hastings resident and commercial entomologist.
  • Dobbs Dirt Fest, 3-5pm. Sponsored by Sustainable Dobbs at the Dobbs Ferry Waterfront Park. Join our fellows  (slightly) upriver for a fiesta of compost games with Hudson Compost, live chickens courtesy of the Greenburgh Nature Center, green landscaping companies and more.

May 1, Sunday

  • Take It or Leave It! TILI Garage open, 11a-3p
  • Ecosystem Restoration Work Session, 1-3p in Burke Estate. Wear long pants and sturdy shoes and join Don Erwin in tending Hastings' largest wetland.

May 3, Tuesday

  • The Sacrifice Zone, 6:30pm. REGISTER. Online film screening and panel discussion featuring Westchester’s environmental experts in a discussion on achieving environmental justice for Peekskill, cleaner air for everyone, and moving our county toward zero waste. 

May 7, Saturday

  • 11th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep! 10a-12p. Come clean your river with other volunteers in the cove just north of Harvest on Hudson, 1 River Street.
    Click here for more info and to register
  • Irvington Garden Club Plant Sale, 10am-2pm. You will find a carefully curated selection of native and ornamental plants for sale, hosted by the Greenburgh Nature Center on Central Avenue. 
  • Work in the Burke! Saturday and Sunday, 11am-5pm - come for any portion. We have 250 shrubs and trees to heal-in or start planting this weekend. Meet near the Broadway gate between Burnside and Olinda. Shovels provided.
  • HW Nature Series, 1-2:30pm: History Walk with Hastings' own Adam Hart. Ever wonder what Hillside Woods was like before the 20th century? What do the ruins reveal about life in Hastings? There were some notable people living there for thousands of years, and haunted mansions in the woods...Come find out more! 
  • Farragut Parkway Riparian Restoration spring cleanup, 3-5p. Join volunteers to weed and care for the shrubs and trees we planted last year. Sign up here! We will alert you for any weather-related schedule changes.

May 8, Sunday

  • Happy Mothers' Day!
  • Take It or Leave It! TILI Garage open, 11a-3p 
  • Work in the Burke! Saturday and Sunday, 11am-5pm - come for any portion. We have 250 shrubs and trees to heal-in or start planting this weekend. Meet near the Broadway gate between Burnside and Olinda. Shovels provided.

May 10, Tuesday

May 15, Sunday

  • TILI Garage open, 11a-3p
  • Bike Rodeo, 11a-1p. Sponsored by Hastigs Velo and Hastings PD. Check back for info and link. An event designed to teach bike safety and technique to kids and adults, held in the train station parking lot.
  • SPRING THING IS BACK! 12-4pm along Warburton Avenue, which will be closed to traffic. Join local residents, businesses and organizations in this celebration of Hastings community. New this year: Get your green on! This spring will feature tools, tricks, info and products to bring us all up to a Hastings' emerald standard. From geothermal and solar installers to local committees and nonprofits, there will be music, kids crafts and activities, and a display of everything you need to go green.

May 21st, Saturday

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