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Help the Beacon Pollinators Committee collect seeds and clear the trail at the Pollinator Pathway at Hiddenbrooke Park. Email beaconnypollinators@gmail.com to sign-up!
Come visit our table at Spirit of Beacon Day to join in conversation about local conservation and environmental programs!
If you have ever visited Hudson Valley Brewery, chances are that you have encountered the vibrant greenery in their pollinator gardens. As you will learn on this guided walk through the property with co-owner Marisa Lomonaco, the industrial site wasn’t always a thriving ecological landscape. This property has had many lives as part of Beacon’s industrial past. Marisa will discuss the history of the site and some of the challenges encountered along the way.
Marisa focused on selecting a combination of native shrubs, trees and perennials that would adapt well to the area and assist in the revitalization of the surrounding landscape. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about her design and the plant choices that have contributed to a pollinator-friendly environment.
At the conclusion of the short tour participants are invited to meet other native plant enthusiasts over a drink and mingle in the garden.
This is a free tour, but space is limited and registration is requested.
All you need to do to confirm is send an email to: beaconnypollinators@gmail.com
Beacon’s Conservation Advisory Committee, in collaboration with the Tree Committee and Beacon Pollinators, will be conducting a Nature/History Walk at Hiddenbrooke on Saturday, June 6, 2026. Details about the time a place will be shared upon registration.
Hiddenbrooke officially became part of Beacon’s open space inventory in 2015 because of community advocacy to preserve the area. Hiddenbrooke includes approximately 100 acres of forest land and meadows. In the nineteenth century Hiddenbrooke was known as Nutleigh Farm which included seven farms.
The tour will be conducted by Sean Merryman who is a member of the Tree Committee. Sean is an ISA certified arborist working as a forester with the New York Department of Parks and Recreation. He has been trained in forest ecology, botany, and invasive species. His goal for the Hiddenbrooke History Walk is to explore how humans interact and change a landscape and to help people understand how trees become a forest.
In addition, Shannon Murphy-Curtin will share stories of the previous owners and how they left their imprint on this unique property. Shannon’s grandparents were caretakers Hiddenbrooke.
Contact hogrady@beaconny.gov for more info
Before you throw it away, let’s try to fix it! Volunteers will be available to help mend, repair and fix clocks, lamps, clothing and textile, soft toys, light carpentry and more! The best part, it’s free! Neighbors helping neighbors, to keep things out of landfills!
Fixers and volunteers can reach out to: beaconfishkillrepaircafe@gmail.com
Repair Café Hudson Valley
Sustainable Hudson Valley
City of Beacon
Mutual Aid Beacon
City of Beacon Conservation Advisory Committee
Dutchess County Division of Solid Waste Management
Dutchess County Soil & Water Conservation District
Join The Beacon Sloop Club and Riverkeeper for a cleanup project on the shores of the Beacon Waterfront, Harbor and Pete and Toshi Seeger Park from 8:45 am to 1:00 pm for the 15th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep. This is a rain or shine event.
Volunteers will meet in front of the Beacon Sloop Club House, 2 Red Flynn Drive, Beacon, NY. Arrive at 8:45 am for coffee and free refreshments. Bring your own reusable cup. Sandi Stratton-Gonzalez, will present a short talk from Mothers Out Front (MOF), which mobilizes mothers and other caretakers to "get out in front" of environmental issues that impact the health of kids and future generations. MOF Dutchess is focused on changing the way Dutchess County manages municipal solid waste. Learn more about the damage caused by this Disposal Model of waste management and the benefits of pivoting to a Recovery Model. Holly O'Grady from Beacon Pollinator Gardens will also be working on the Beacon Sloop Club Pollinator Garden. Parking available on the riverside of the Train Station (free on the weekends).
We recommend all Sweep volunteers to bring a hat, sunscreen, a full reusable water bottle, insect repellent, work gloves and hand sanitizer. Volunteers are welcome to bringwaders and/or muck boots, though, not necessary as it will be low tide.
This site is suitable for elementary-aged children with adult supervision.
Citywide Clean-up & Planting
Community Environmental Fair & Celebration at Hudson Valley Brewery
We’re celebrating our clean-up efforts with a toast at Hudson Valley Brewery. Many local environmentally focused group will be in attendance and sharing more information about community composting, pollinator pathway plantings, trails and recreation, local farming, food insecurity and more! Kids are welcome and fareground will be hosting their annual seedling sale!
Conservation Advisory Committee, Green Beacon Coalition, Greenway Trail Committee, Tree Committee, Beacon Pollinators, Beacon Bicycle Coalition, Common Ground Farm, Fareground, Land to Learn, Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, Fishkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Mother’s Out Front, The City of Beacon, Parks & Recreation and Hudson Valley Brewery
Join BCAN for a free community event filled with food, fun, and opportunities to learn how you can give back to your neighbors!
The upheaval of 2025 has hit our community hard. In times like these, connection, care, and collective action matter more than ever.
That’s why this year’s fourth annual Taproots Festival is all about community care: giving and receiving support, finding joy in solidarity, and discovering how we each have something meaningful to offer each other.
Sunday, November 2
2–5 PM
The Yard
4 Hanna Lane
Beacon, NY 12508
Meet your neighbors, enjoy free food and drink, receive care and support, and learn how to get involved with groups working to make our community stronger. It's FREE to attend. There's something for everyone, and we can't wait to see you there!
The City of Beacon’s Tree Advisory Committee is hosting a casual tree identification walk on 11/2 at Madam Brett Park. Come join us for a morning stretch of the legs at 10am and learn more about identifying the native trees in our beautiful city.
Our next pollinator meet-up will be October 22 at 7pm at the Beacon Recreation Center at 23 West Center Street. Meeting begins at 7pm!
Join us as we welcome Kyra Stoddart, who is starting an initiative to address Japanese Knotweed. She has been successful in eradicating her knotweed and has done a lot of research!
Soon is Now’s 5th annual festival featuring original live performances and visual art by artists working in multiple disciplines curated as a walking tour through the landscape of Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park.
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC with Davalois Fearon Dance.
LEARN MORE HERE
Featuring Artists:
Jill sigman/ thinkdance
Sibyl Kempson
Dee Beasnael
Sarah Willis
Edwin Torres
Bill Burns
Mollie McKinley
Emilie Houssart
Lori MerhigE
Tom King
Andrew Brehm
Pippa Brehm
Matthew Mottel
Nicole Lattuca
Twinkle Burke
Jojo Gonzalez
Climate Change Theatre Action
Amy White Eyes
*How to: 4 performance tours at 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm: Approx 1 hour. Sign up at Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park. We open at 1pm.
Visit the exhibition by artist Bill Burns in The River Center, participate in 'Scribble Scores' an art and music workshop in a Geodesic Dome for children led by artists Matthew Mottel and Nicole Lattuca, and join a special workshop "Mugwort Walk: Radical Kinship for a Future Earth," by Amy White Eyes at 1pm or 2pm before your tour (free). For more info email us at soonisnowarts@gmail.com or follow us @soon_isnow
Join forces with your community to clean-up the Hudson River and Fishkill Creek shorelines. Organized by the US Coast Guard Auxilary, Sloop Cub, and the Conservation Advisory Committee.
FREE REPAIRS BY YOUR NEIGHBORS
Before you throw it away, let’s try to fix it! Volunteer fixers will be on hand to repair clocks, lamps, textiles, soft toys, and more. Bring it in and learn how to fix it alongside your neighbor repair team! Together we’re keeping useful things out of the landfill and building a culture of repair. Please limit to 1–2 items per person.
Brought to you by:
Sustainable Hudson Valley Repair Cafe Hudson Valley
City of Beacon Mutual Aid Beacon
Dutchess County Division of Solid Waste Management
Sponsors:
Adams Fairacre Farms
Dutchess County Soil & Water Conservation District
Beetle + Fred
Brett’s Hardware
Brother’s Trattoria
In celebration of Earth Day, join forces with your community to clean-up sites in Beacon! On Saturday April 26, 2025 from 9am-12pm, volunteer with your neighbors to pick-up trash, rejuvenate pollinator garden sites, remove invasive species and plant seedlings all over our community! Clean-up will take place rain or shine!
Register to for a clean-up site now and join our efforts!
After the clean-up, head over to Hudson Valley Brewery for the annual Earth Day environmental fair from 12pm -3pm. Join in conversation with the many local environmental organizations that will be in attendance to learn more about the incredible work they are doing throughout our community! This event will take place rain or shine. In the case of inclement weather we’ll move the event to the event space on the second floor of the brewery.
Each clean-up participant will receive one free drink ticket to redeem at Hudson Valley Brewery.
Beacon Bicycle Coalition
Beacon Tree Advisory Committee
Beacon Greenway Committee
Beacon Compost Committee
Beacon Pollinators
Beacon Bikes
BCAN
Bloom
City of Beacon - Climate Smart Program
Citizens Climate Lobby Hudson Valley
Common Ground
Fareground
Fishkill Creek Watershed Alliance
Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail
Land To Learn
Mothers Out Front Dutchess County
Repair Cafe & Mutual Aid Beacon
10:00 am - 11:30pm at Beacon Rec Center, 23 West Center Street, Beacon, NY.
Please mark your calendars - next FCWA public meeting will happen at 5pm on Thursday Feb 13 at East Fishkill Community Center, 890 Rte 82, Hopewell Junction 12533. First Floor. Meeting can be joined online through Google Meet meet.google.com/qra-oudk-mob
To add to your calendars: https://calendar.app.google/CCKZmfYZNrcN1HF69
Please note that going forward we will be switching to a standing date every 2 months for our general meetings and alternating months for the board meetings. We will announce the dates after the Feb meeting.
Date: Sunday, October 27
Time: 1pm - 4pm
Where: Beacon Recreation, 23 West Center Street, Beacon, NY
Before you throw it away, let’s try to fix it! Volunteers will be available to help mend, repair and fix clocks, lamps, clothing, soft toys, light carpentry and more! The best part, it’s free! Neighboors helping neighbors, to keep things out of landfills!
Fixer and volunteer can reach out to: beaconfishkillrepaircafe@gmail.com
SOON IS NOW’s annual festival will be held on Saturday, October 5th, 2024 from 1:00pm-4:30pm at Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, free and open to all. Parking is free at the park and at the Beacon Metro North train station, a short walk to the park. For more info contact evemorgenstern@gmail.com
Part reverence for the River, part cry for what is lost to climate chaos, part response to the pollution and rejuvenation of our park’s ecosystem.
SOON IS NOW places art in conversation with the landscape and brings audiences into an immersive experience with original works that engage with the impacts of our warming world, the history that brought us to this place, and the future we can imagine.
Program: 1pm & 2pm: workshops: Mugwort meditative plant walk and tea service with Amy White Eyes.
1:00 - 4:00 Hands-on, mark-making experimentation with carbon sequestering biochar for adults and children ages 5+with T. Charnan Lewis with special guided exercise from 1:30-2:30pm
2:00pm/ 2:30pm/ 3:00pm Sign up to go on one of 3 walking tours of the performances in Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park. Artists: Edwin Torres, Andrew Brehm, Jim Fletcher, Rafael Sánchez, Tom King, Katiana Rangel, Alex Waterman, Elisa Santiago, Twinkle Burke, Jojo Gonzalez, Martin D. Fowler, Lori Merhige
All day: Visit our visual art exhibition with work by Elizabeth Castagna, Jean Brennan and T. Charnan Lewis in the River Center and talk to environmental groups Riverkeeper and Beacon Climate Action Now
Wednesday, Sept. 25 @ 7 PM
Recreation Center, 23 West Center Street
Join us to celebrate our pathways around town! We will also share tips on how to overwinter your pathway to benefit bees and birds.
Share a photo of your thriving pathway! Email your photo and a few words on why you selected your image to Beaconnypollinators@gmail.com. Submissions accepted through Sept. 15.
Saturday, April 20, 2024 | 9am - noon
Join forces with your community to clean up sites around the city of Beacon! Find one of many designated cleanup sites and signup below. Please wear work gloves, boots, long sleeves and pants.
After party and community sustainability fair at Hudson Valley Brewery after the cleanup from 12pm - noon!
How to Create a Pollinator Pathway – Anywhere!
Yes, pollinator pathways can be big, small, or even planted in containers!
The Pollinator Path Working Group invites you to a panel discussion by Beacon’s local pathway experts. Topics include: using native plants, techniques for establishing a bed, the benefits to our local bees, and sharing an awesome digital plant list.
Panelists:
Monika Aymar-Blair
Blair Patterson
Karen Quiana
Anna West
When: Saturday, March 16 from 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Where: Recreation Center, 23 West Center St., Beacon, NY 12508. Attendees will receive free seed packets and the opportunity to win some really cool raffle prizes!
Thanks to the Conservation Advisory Committee, Parks Department, One Nature and Stanza Books.
Join forces with your community to clean up sites around the city of Beacon!
Find one of many designated cleanup sites and signup below.
Community clean-up after party at Hudson Valley Brewery
7 East Main Street, Beacon, NY | 12pm - 2pm
A collaboration between Healey Brothers Inc., Sustainable Hudson Valley, Beacon’s Conservation Advisory Committee, the Green Beacon Coalition, Sustainable Putnam, and Climate Smart Philipstown will be hosting an electronic vehicle test drive event at the Beacon Elks lodge on Sunday September 19 from 10am-1pm.
The event will be offering test drives in their Hyundai Kona, Ford Mach-E, and Chevy Bolt EVs. The event will also feature EV education and individual & group-purchase incentives to local residents and neighboring communities.
Come out for a test drive and take an opportunity to learn about EVs and raise money to fight climate change. Healey Brothers will donate $10 to Sustainable Hudson Valley for each registered test drive.
Use this sign up form if your interested in a test drive or for Sustainable Hudson Valley updates.
See you Sunday!
Electric Vehicle Test Drive event.
Sunday September 19 from 10 - 1 pm at the Beacon Elks Lodge
Sign up HERE for a test drive and to receive updates from Sustainable Hudson Valley.
A city-wide sweep of Beacon.
Green Beacon Co and the Parks & Recreation Department are hosting our annual Earth Day City-Wide Clean Up event on Saturday, April 24th starting at 9 a.m. Sign up here for one of the many sites around the city. Great for teams and community groups. With a crew at each location, we can significantly reduce the amount of litter that makes its way to the Hudson River. What better way to celebrate Earth Day and your hometown?
Unfortunately we will not be hosting a BBQ social this year but we do plan for one in the future. Grab some work gloves and lace up your boots. Long pants and sleeves recommended.
Covid-19 protocols will be practiced so please wear a mask too!
Can’t make it Saturday? No problem! Take a look down your street on garbage day for any litter to scoop up.
Thank you all!
A city-wide sweep of Beacon followed by BBQ, music, & an environmental fair at the Recreation Center, 23 West Center Street, Beacon. NY.
Please sign up for one of many designated clean up locations here!
Please join Green Beacon Coalition for our bi-annual Environmental Citizen Soapbox on Oct 2nd at 7-9pm.
Soapbox is a community event where citizens and candidates/officials share their concerns regarding local and regional environmental issues, discuss solutions and build coalitions. Everybody can sign up to speak for 3 min.
Please sign up if you want to speak here: https://tinyurl.com/y5p73ym6
Location: BEAHIVE 291 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508
Door opens at 6.30pm!
