Teatown Lake Reservation / Calendar of Events

Teatown’s special events help support our education programs and land stewardship efforts, and provide opportunities for the public to have fun while learning about nature in our region. Each year we have the following events:
Nature-Friendly Plants Sale and Workshops (May)
Fall Festival (October)
Hudson River EagleFest (February)
Pancake Brunch (March)

Please check back here for further details closer to the events.

Nature-friendly Plant Sale & Workshops
Our ever-popular 2-day plant sale will be held rain or shine on Friday, May 9 from 4 to 7 pm and Saturday, May 10 from 9 am to 2 pm on Teatown grounds.

The sale will feature unique and hard-to-find varieties of wildflowers, perennials, herbs, annuals and vegetables. A special section will highlight native plants of the Hudson Hills and Highlands.

Plant enthusiasts will want to take advantage of the First Pick Sale on Friday, May 9, from 4 to 7 pm. For an admission fee of $5 per person, gardeners will have the opportunity to get “first pick” among the plants, flowers, grasses and shrubs on sale.

On Saturday, May 10, Teatown will host a series of free mini-workshops on a variety of “green” subjects and gardening techniques. The “Learn, Shop, Grow” workshop themes are:

10 am – “Attract Butterflies to your Garden” with Wildflower Island Guide Mary Harrington
10:30 am – “Enhance Your Garden with Herbs” with Maggie Pichura, Teatown Environmental Educator and CCE Master Gardener
11 am – “Make Your Garden Work Harder for You: Companion Planting” with Maggie Pichura, Teatown Environmental Educator and CCE Master Gardener
11:30 am – “How to Grow Native” with Linsay Cochran, ELLA Coordinator and Local Organic Farmer
12 noon – “Make Black Gold: Composting Techniques” with Linsay Cochran, ELLA Coordinator and Local Organic Farmer

A nature photography exhibit by Dimitri Rellos will be featured in the Nature Center.
Click here for the flyer.

Fall Festival
The annual Fall Festival, held on Teatown grounds, will be Saturday October 18, from 10 am to 4 pm and will focus on family fun while promoting an appreciation for our natural environment and our surroundings.

There will be so much to do … carve a pumpkin, dress a scarecrow, take a scenic hayride, learn about our raptors, meet farm animals, ride the SavATree zipline, dance to musical entertainment and go on a scavenger hunt. All this while learning about nature during the autumn season. And so much more! Festival-goers can shop at the Teatown Marketplace which will be bustling with Teatown Tea, Tom Cat Bakery breads, apples, cider and other seasonal goodies.