Upcoming Events and Opportunities
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HOPEWELL VALLEY GREEN TEAM EVENTS
- October 18, 2026: Join us for a Community Potluck at the Hopewell Train Station in Hopewell Borough 5:00-7:00
- October 29, 2026: Join us for a Green Gathering at the Hopewell Train Station in Hopewell Borough 6:00-7:30
HOPEWELL VALLEY EVENTS
- October 27, 2026: Planting Native Plants for Migrating Birds. Join Hopewell Valley Gardens and Junaita Hummel, retired research scientist turned citizen scientist, to learn what to plant and what resources to provide for overwintering “snowbirds”; and, how to created a landscape to servae as stopover oasis for pass-through avian migrators. Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m Location: virtual. Regiseter at https://tinyurl.com/HVPlants4Birds
CLEAN SWEEP 2027 TRASH PICK-UPS IN HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP
- April 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- October 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
COMMUNITY YARD SALES
- Pennington Borough‘s town-wide yard sale: May 2, 2026 (rain or shine). Info here.
- Hopewell Borough‘s town-wide yard sale: June 13-14, 2026.
LOCAL RECYCLING EVENTS
- Go to Recycling Events page of this website.
BIKE TO WORK MONTH
- May 2026 (Go to: Bike to Work Month in Greater Mercer County)
PLASTIC FREE JULY
- Check out plasticfreejuly.org for information about reducing plastic waste
EARTH HOUR
- March 28, 2026, 8:30-9:30 pm Local Time (Go to: Earth Hour)
EARTH DAY
- April 22, 2026 (Go to: Earth Day)
NATIONAL FARMERS MARKET WEEK
- August 2-8, 2026 (Go to: Farmers Market Week)
AMERICA RECYCLES DAY
- November 15, 2026 (Go to: America Recycles)
Prior HV Green Team Events:
- April 19, 2026: Community Potluck in Hopewell Borough
- February 15, 2026: Community Zero-Waste Potluck in Hopewell Borough
- February 7, 2026: Scrap metal recycling collection at Hopewell Township Public Works
- September 20, 2025: information table at the Hopewell Harvest Fair
- June 1, 2025: Community Zero-Waste Potluck in Hopewell Borough
- May 17, 2025: information table at Pennington Day
- February 10, 2024: Scrap Metal Collection at Hopewell Township Public Works
- October 21, 2023: information table at the Hopewell Harvest Fair
- May 20, 2023: information table at Pennington Day
- September 17, 2022: information table at the Hopewell Harvest Fair
- May 21, 2022: information table at Pennington Day
- April 30, 2022: Green Get Together at Lawrence High School, as part of the Mercer County Greening Together celebration of Earth Week (April 23-30).
- April 24, 2022: conducted a virtual forum Decarbonizing Your Home. A video recording is available here.
- September 11, 2021: Styrofoam, CDs, DVDs and wine cork collection. New location in Hopewell Township.
- July 23-25, 2021: we had a table at the Hopewell Valley Arts Council’s new event, “The Junkyard: Upcycle Art Exhibition” at Woolsey Park.
- April 26, 2021: Journey to Zero-Waste, part of Greening Together 2021 (Mercer County Sustainability Coalition).
- April 24, 2021: Hopewell Valley Green Week “Live Green” Kits and Games.
- February 6, 2021: Styrofoam, CDs, DVDs and wine cork collection.
- September 12, 2020: Styrofoam, CDs, DVDs and wine cork collection.
- May 16, 2020: Virtual Pennington Day.
- September 21, 2019: information table and water cooler stations at the Hopewell Harvest Fair.
- September 7, 2019: Stuff the Trucks (Styrofoam, Paper, Household items) Click here to see details about it on our Recycling Events page.
- May 18, 2019: information table at Pennington Day.
- February 2, 2019: Styrofoam, CDs, DVDs and wine cork collection.