Where does it go?
Every recyclable item, matched to the right partner. Tap any partner name to read their full profile.
What's open right now.
TVs and computer monitors close at noon. Everything else runs until 2 PM. This view tracks the time so you don't miss a window.
Where to go in Shafer Park.
Park behind Alex's gas station (Stouffer Avenue entrance). No charge for parking. Then find the right zone for what you're dropping off.
Helping a parent declutter?
If you're helping a parent through a downsizing, a move to assisted living, or sorting through a family home, Green Fest takes more than you'd think and routes it to the right hands.
Some items hold weight. Green Fest gives them dignity.
A walker that helped someone heal. A wedding china set. A father's reading glasses. The right partners turn what feels like loss into something useful for someone else.
A Note from Sentinel Silver
This section exists because Sentinel Silver, the small Maryland business that donated this app, exists to honor older adults and the families who walk alongside them. Decluttering a parent's home is heavy work. The bag of cords. The dad's old reading glasses. The walker that helped someone heal.
Green Fest offers one of the most dignified ways we know to send those items somewhere they will do good. The partners listed above don't haul things to a landfill. They route them to people who need them.
That's worth showing up for.
Who makes Green Fest possible.
Tap any partner card to read their full profile. Tap any URL to visit their site directly.
The organizations that take what you bring. Each one routes items to people who need them.
The food, coffee, and live music at Green Fest 2026, listed on the official festival flyer.
Donated in Honor of Joyce D. Miner.
A gift to the Boonsboro community in honor of my grandmother's 85th birthday. She loved attending Green Fest. No data collected. Nothing for sale.
Saturday, May 9, 2026, is the day of Green Fest. It is also my grandmother Joyce D. Miner's 85th birthday. Joyce was born on May 9, 1941.
My grandparents, Robert "Scotty" and Joyce Miner, were lifelong Mapleville residents. As a kid, I played in Shafer Park. As an intern for WHAG-TV in 2009, I likely covered the very first Boonsboro Green Fest. In May 2010, my grandmother attended the Green Fest, the first one after my grandfather Scotty died on November 28, 2009.
Joyce now lives in memory care in Hagerstown.
This festival means something to me. It is where my family showed up, year after year, for Boonsboro. So this app exists, in honor of Joyce, as my way of giving something back to the place that gave my family so much.
This app is an unaffiliated community gift. Sentinel Silver, LLC and its founder Ryan R. Miner are not affiliated with the Boonsboro Green Fest, the Green Fest Committee, the Boonsboro Environmental Commission, the Town of Boonsboro, or any partner organization listed inside.
This app is donated as a community resource in honor of Joyce D. Miner, who loved attending the festival.
No data is collected. No accounts. No sign-ups. No tracking. No email capture. Nothing inside this app sends information back to Sentinel Silver or any third party.
For official festival communications, please contact the Boonsboro Green Fest Committee directly at info@boonsborogreenfest.com.
When Mom's phone stops working, we go to her.
Sentinel Silver is the technology security and support company that adult children call when a parent's phone, computer, or smart TV stops working and you cannot drive there yourself.
We come to the home. No repair shop. No "bring it in." No three-hour drive across the state because Mom doesn't trust the kid at the counter.
Looking for a meaningful Mother's Day gift?
A Sentinel Silver membership is a year of patient, in-person technology help for the mom who keeps saying "I don't want to bother you with another phone question." We handle it. She keeps her independence.
Ask Ryan about gift membershipsAbout the Green Fest
The Boonsboro Green Fest Swap & Recycling Event is an official event of the Town of Boonsboro. A group of volunteers founded the festival in 2009 after visiting the Green Festival in Washington, DC. It runs every May at Shafer Park and draws thousands of attendees from across Western Maryland.
Janeen Solberg (founder; manager of Turn the Page Bookstore on Main Street) and Barbara Wetzel co-chair the festival, with support from the Boonsboro Environmental Commission and over 150 volunteers.
Connect with Green Fest directly
For questions about volunteering, drop-off donations, or partnerships, contact the festival committee directly:
Sentinel Silver, LLC donates this app to the community in honor of Joyce D. Miner. No cost to anyone. No data collected. Nothing for sale inside.
Compiled and built by Ryan R. Miner, Hagerstown native