This Thursday, October 30, Lynwood Theatre is hosting a special screening of three scary movies in partnership with Bainbridge Prepares. The theme of the night is that there are scary events in life, but preparation can help you deal with them.

Your food questions will be answered by the Bainbridge Prepares Food Resilience Team at an October 21st presentation at the library. The Food Resilience Team will share information about flexible food options and a simple way to estimate how many days worth of food you have. 

Tomorrow, October 16, is the Great Shakeout, that one day every year on which we have the opportunity to share communitywide the experience of practicing for the biggest disaster we are likely to face here in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Earthquake.

Preserving the harvest from local farms or your own garden is a community resilience skill. Doing so with healthy, long-storing fermentation goes way beyond dilling pickles. The BP Food Resilience Team's Veg Club recently took a trip to Iggy’s Alive & Cultured in Kingston where participants got a master class in the ancient anaerobic preservation process.

Last Saturday, September 20, between 10 and 1, more than 300 people stopped by Fire Station 21 to learn how to take the next steps to prepare their households for emergencies. Bainbridge Prepares volunteers had set up information tables in the temporarily empty Fire Station truck bays.

Due to recent road construction closures and detours, the entire Bainbridge community is now well aware of how the South End of Bainbridge Island is its own little island on a bigger island. That’s why the South End is throwing its own emergency preparedness party.

Last night at Seattle’s Town Hall as part of the Seattle Arts and Lectures series, activist Bill McKibben talked about his new book, Here Comes the Sun, which offers a welcome sign of hope for a planet that is experiencing a steady increase in climate-related disasters. That hope rises on the horizon every day and is powering more and more cities across the globe.

We call it Day of Preparedness, and it’s the best time all year to meet with the trained volunteers and team leads at Bainbridge Prepares and its partners—the City of Bainbridge Island and the Fire Department—to learn how to prepare your household.

Preserving home-grown or locally farmed crops supports both personal and community food resilience. Join Bainbridge Prepares’ Veg Club for a field trip on fermentation.

It’s our tenth annual Day of Preparedness! Information booths, gear giveaways, door prizes. Take action and stop worrying.

Darren Murphy, the president of Bainbridge Island Fruit Club, is hosting a tour of his property to show people how to grow fruits and vegetables in limited space.

The upcoming (2027) expansion of the Bainbridge Island Senior Center will enable the center, which is one of the Island’s Disaster Hubs, to serve full-time as a resilience hub.

Fieldstone of Bainbridge Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care hosts an annual summer party that raises money for a local cause. This year, the focus is on us!

Bainbridge Island Fruit Club has joined the BP Food Resilience Team's Grow for Helpline initiative. They're thinning and protecting apples at the publicly owned Johnson Farm so they'll grow big and healthy for donation this fall.

The Prepare in a Year topic for June is getting home and getting away, which is all about preparing gear bags for different purposes. BP Founder Scott James will be giving a presentation at the library on go bags, reviewing what they’re for and what to pack in them.

BP Founder and Board President Scott James “visited” Camano Island May 29 through an online presentation to share the Bainbridge Prepares Model with residents there. He was the guest of Camano Preparedness Group, an emergency readiness organization fashioned after BP.

Learn how real home gardeners integrate a mix of vegetables, fruit, ornamentals, and homemade garden structures.

On Saturday, Partners in Health (PIH) continues its fight against tuberculosis (TB) with an event—Partners in Poetry—at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.

The Emergency Prep series at the library continues in May with a focus on CPR. May 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Bainbridge Public Library, you can learn how to administr CPR and use an AED.

Our local food banks are more stressed than ever and anticipate even greater need in the coming months. You can make a difference at Peaceful Morning Farm, where an all-volunteer staff grows food exclusively for local food banks.