UCRRA at Repair Cafe (Gardiner)

 Gardiner Repair Cafe

Sunday, October 26th 2025

11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Gardiner Library

133 Farmers Turnpike

Gardiner, NY

Hudson Valley Repair Cafe offers free pop-up events across the County where people can learn how to fix their “broken but beloved” items for FREE, working with expert fixers (repair coaches) who are also your neighbors!  Each Repair Cafe event may have a broad list of items they can troubleshoot and repair, depending on the specialty of the local volunteer Repair Coaches.

Join UCRRA’s Recycling Outreach Team at Repair Cafe, where our booth will focus on helping you to “repair” your recycling habits! Our educators will be on hand to help answer any waste, recycling, or composting questions and distribute free reusable swag for anyone who stops by our booth!

At this Cafe, volunteer repair coaches can help fix the following items:

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES lamps, toasters, etc.

WOOD/FURNITURE repair/glueing

MECHANICAL: watches, clocks, etc.

COMPUTERS

TEXTILES: sewing, mending,

ZIPPERS

DOLLS: restringing

JEWELRY

SEWING MACHINES

PHOTO scan/restore

Questions? Contact the event organizer to see if a repair coach you need will be there. Contact repaircafegardiner@gmail.com

Repair is one of UCRRA’s 7R’s to Rethinking Waste! Refurbishing broken items extends the useful life of our goods and materials, which can help divert waste sent to landfills. Repair not only fosters a community culture of waste reduction, but it can also stretch your dollar and teach you new skills along the way!

Accessibility: The Gardiner Library strives to ensure its building is fully accessible in support of our mission to provide valuable resources and services to all residents in Gardiner. This commitment includes making every effort to improve accessibility and working to acquire the funding necessary to make key improvements. A wheelchair accessible ramp is available to enter the Library. Accessible parking is available to the side of the building. This program will take place on the main level, no elevator or stairs required to access the meeting room. Masks and social distancing are not required at this time, but they are encouraged.