Green, Clean & Safe Committee


Teacrafters’ Coven – Tea Blending Workshop with a Witch's Twist


  • Date: Second Tuesday of the Month
  • Time: 6:30–8 PM
  • Location: Downtown Sykesville Connection: 7611 Main Street, Suite 3, Sykesville — back of the blue building.

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Hands-on tea blending with kitchen herbs, everyday magic, and custom blends you craft and take home.🌿

10% of ticket sales are donated to the Downtown Sykesville Connection to support cultural and creative programming on Main Street. 


Green and Wellness Initiatives Projects

The Green Committee creates green spaces, supports sustainable environmental efforts within the downtown Sykesville community, and manages the Sykesville Community Garden. The Green and Wellness Initiative Projects group will continue maintaining the Main Street garden, developing the Schoolhouse garden, and designing projects to support litter removal, greening activities, community education, and wellness in downtown Sykesville.


The Keep Sykesville Beautiful (KSB) group is a partnership between the Clean, Green, and Safe Committee of the Downtown Sykesville Connection (a nonprofit organization administering the Main Street program in Sykesville), the Town of Sykesville Staff/Public Works Department, and Sykesville Parks & Recreation.


Together, the three partners will use Keep America Beautiful’s framework for community education and hands-on stewardship that reduces litter, encourages recycling, promotes grassroots volunteerism, and makes sustainable improvement possible for communities of all sizes. KSB aims to improve behavior and create innovative, locally-focused programs that address the specific needs of this area and its population with the goal to reach deep into tour communities to effect meaningful, positive changes.

Composting in Sykesville: Check out our pilot program

Check out our composting program

2026 Volunteer opportunities:

Water the Main Street Flower Pots

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Water the Little Sykes Gardens


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Watering the Main Street Garden


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Project List

  • Maintain downtown gardens and beautification projects.
  • Expand environmental education through composting and sustainability programming.
  • Activate green spaces through art programs, workshops, and community gatherings.
  • Explore future wellness initiatives such as sensory-friendly therapeutic gardens.


DSC FY2026-2027 Work Plan

Keep Sykesville Beautiful

The Keep Sykesville Beautiful (KSB) group is a partnership between the Clean, Green, and Safe Committee of the Downtown Sykesville Connection (a nonprofit organization administering the Main Street program in Sykesville), the Town of Sykesville Staff/Public Works Department, and Sykesville Parks & Recreation.


Together, the three partners will use Keep America Beautiful’s framework for community education and hands-on stewardship that reduces litter and encourages recycling, promotes grassroots volunteerism and makes sustainable improvement possible for communities of all sizes. KSB aims to improve behavior and create innovative, locally-focused programs that address the specific needs of this area and its population with the goal of reaching deep into tour communities to effect meaningful, positive changes.



#DoBeautifulThings


We are proud to announce our partnership with the Trash Troopers: a group of citizens dedicated to keeping our communities clean by organizing regular trash cleanup events in Carroll and Howard County, Maryland.

Previous Achievements

    – Yearly maintenance of the three downtown community gardens & Main Street flower pots.

    – Coordination of four educational programs at the Main Street garden and community clean-ups.

    – Completion of the Cigarette Littering Prevention Program.

    - Creation of a community composting program.

    – Participation in the sustainable community application with the Town of Sykesville.

    – Award and initiation of the Clean Up Green Up award to provide downtown businesses with recycled, eco-friendly paper bags.

    – Purchase and installation of a stand-up tool shed at the Main Street community garden.

    – Application and award of the Healing the Planet grant through Keep Sykesville Beautiful – beautification project at the Little Sykes.

    – Application and award of the Clean Up Green Up grant – paper bags for downtown businesses.

    – Application and award of the Cigarette Littering Prevention Program through Keep Sykesville Beautiful 

    – Purchase and customization of cigarette collectors/educational program.

    – Completion of the Keep Sykesville Beautiful (KSB) training and certification.

    – Renovation of the Sykesville Main Street sign at the garden.

    – Purchase a bench for the garden.

    – Replacement of all flower beds with cedar lumbers, funded with the first Clean Up Green Up grant awarded to the DSC.

    – Addition of a fence and apple trees at the Schoolhouse Road garden.

    – Planting apple trees at the Schoolhouse Road garden.

    Green, Clean & Safe Committee Board Liaison: Julia Cooper
    Weeding Wednesday at 7 pm after planting at the Sykesville ‘Eileen M. Merkle’ Community Garden, weather permitting. 

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