Programs
Keep Pickens Beautiful sponsors and supports many projects and programs in our community to enhance the beauty of our county, improve waste management, and promote environmental stewardship.
We have been serving Pickens County for more than 30 years, and look forward to continuing to work with residents, governmental entities, businesses, and organizations. Come join us! You’ll learn something new, you’ll meet new neighbors, you’ll help your community, and you’ll have fun!
The Adopt-A-Road program is one of KPB’s oldest and most successful. Each year, our amazing Team picks up hundreds of bags of trash from hundreds of miles of roadsides!
Click HERE to learn more, enjoy our gallery of volunteers, and hopefully, you’ll join our AAR Team!
‘Beautification’ covers a wide range of initiatives, but essentially, we’re working to help maintain and add to the beauty of our county. This includes mural installations, landscaping projects, and more!
Click HERE to learn about past and current projects. Come lend a hand!
Keep Pickens Beautiful offers a variety of educational programs throughout the year. We work directly with the public school system, youth groups, other community organizations, and more.
Are you looking for programs for your kids or students? Or do you want to help with programs? Click HERE
Green Ribbon and Green Thumb Awards are given to a selected individuals, groups, clubs or businesses in Pickens County in recognition of outstanding examples of a program, project or activities that protect or enhance our community’s environment through promotion, support or furtherance of the goals of KPB.
Green Ribbon is usually awarded to a businesses for their beautification efforts and environmental stewardship.
Green Thumb is usually awarded to an individual or family for their beautification efforts.
Click HERE to learn more about the KPB Green Awards or to nominate someone.
Edible Pickens is a program under the Beautification umbrella, but it’s also educational and is rapidly growing throughout Pickens County. The focus of Edible Pickens is to beautify our community using edible and sustainable plants. This will minimize labor while also educating the community about permaculture and foodscaping.