Event Details

Green Up Newburgh! 2026 will bring together local environmental organizations, youth programs, and residents to highlight the incredible work happening across our city. From urban forestry, community gardens, and composting to walking trails, pollinator pathways, park revitalization, and healthy outdoor activity, this event celebrates the collective efforts making Newburgh healthier and greener.

Attendees will receive a Green Up Newburgh! Stamp Card, encouraging them to visit each table and engage directly with participating organizations. Once completed, stamp cards can be entered into a raffle for a great prize sponsored by the Newburgh Waterways Center.

So, join us for a great afternoon with food, music, to fun games to celebrate a greener Newburgh and to take meaningful actions like:

• Creating a seed bomb or pollinator-friendly craft

• Planting, weeding or mulching at the Calvary Presbyterian Church

• Discovery urban biodiversity and helping with a BioBlitz

• Adding food scraps to a composting bin

• Kids’ eco-art station (recycled materials)

• Writing a physical letter or postcard to a local representative

• Calling or emailing a local representative in real time

• Youth program enrollment

• Signing up for an upcoming volunteer opportunity

• Story-sharing  (“Why are trees and parks important to you?"

• Pledging a sustainability action (at home, school, or work)

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

1. Calvary Presbyterian Church

2. Cary Institute & Scenic Hudson

3. Downing Park Conservancy

4. Goudy Wildlife Club of Newburgh

5. Greater Newburgh Parks Conservancy

6. Hudson Highlands Nature Center

7. Land to Learn

8. Little Friends Learning Loft

9. Marc’s Friends

10. Newburgh Farm and Food Initiative

11. Newburgh Farmers’ Market

12. Newburgh Waterways Center 

13. Newburgh Yoga Shala

14. Our Core

15. Outdoor Promise

16. Quassaick Creek Watershed Alliance

17. Riverkeeper

18. Walden Savings Bank