Presented by the Food Resilience Team : A non-emergent emergency food tasting event with wine pairings, games, and demos.

On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bainbridge Island Fire Department is hosting a remembrance ceremony in partnership with American Legion Colin Hyde Post 172 and the Bainbridge Island Police Department.

Bainbridge Prepares is finally old enough to get a learner’s permit. (Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve been driving change for a while now already.) Our 15th birthday is just an occasion to celebrate everything we’ve accomplished.

You’re invited! Join us at our second Disaster Open House of the year, this time at Hyla. If you missed the last one (at Bethany Lutheran), if Hyla is your Hub, or if you’re just curious about how this Hub compares, stop by with your questions.

Rainwater catchment is great for both watering your food garden and maintaining an emergency water supply. Join us on our upcoming tour of a catchment system.

On July 12, Bainbridge Prepares volunteers joined more than 2,500 others to donate their skills for the Rotary Club’s 66th Annual Auction and Rummage Sale. That sale broke all previous earnings records, raising $1,021,366.

The idea was for people to visit a Disaster Hub and talk to the people who know how to prepare: Bainbridge Prepares staff and volunteers. And that’s what happened. More than 120 visitors passed through the Bethany Lutheran Open House between 2 and 4 pm on June 7.

Want to grow food successfully and beautifully? Cynthia Carpenter, whose eye-catching garden you may have seen from north Highway 305, is one of the experts at Bay Hay, so she has knowledge to share. Our June Tour will give us a close-up look.

Register here for Sunday’s (June 7) Disaster Hub Open House at Bethany Lutheran.

Twenty-three of Bainbridge Prepares’ Wilderness First Responders (Woofers) spent the entire weekend, May 30–31, in a 22-hour crash course at BIFD Station 21 to renew their WFR credentials.

BI's publicly owned, historic Johnson Farm orchard has lots of apples that we can donate to Helpline House food bank, but only if they’re worm-free. To protect them without any chemicals, we need to thin and cover them on June 6.

Bainbridge Prepares in inviting you to visit our upcoming Disaster Hubs Open House at Bethany Lutheran Church. This is your opportunity to ask question of BP volunteers, learn how to prepare, and find out what services a Disaster Hub will offer after a major incident, like a significant earthquake.

Last year Fruit Club and Veg Club members sent thousands of pounds of home-grown produce to Helpline House. The food banks still need our help. Join us for a community gathering to revel in what we accomplished and find out how to make it even easier, more powerful, and satisfying this year.

This month, May 5 at 6:30 p.m., Veg Club teaches you how to protect your garden by supporting the many beautiful, friendly, and powerful insects that control pests. Learn to recognize and invite these underappreciated allies early so they're ready to work when pests arrive.

This past sunny Saturday, April 25, about 30 volunteers gathered outside a home in Blakely Harbor. They were gathered to participate in a wildfire evacuation exercise.

Saturday, May 9, you can take care of all your fire extinguisher needs: Get your extinguishers inspected, serviced replaced, and upgraded. You can also practice using them.

Women’s Work: The Untold Story of America’s Female Farmers sheds light on an essential history. The movie, which came out in 2024, focuses on the largely unknown and hidden experience of women farmers, especially Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, and Queer women farmers.

Veg Club is hitting your screens again to teach you how to be more resilient. This time, expert gardener and BI Fruit Club founder, Darren Murphy, is going to show you how he grows lots of vegetables,

If you haven’t reserved your tickets yet, do it now. Already 70 people have signed up for the Rainwater Collection for Emergencies presentation hosted by the Bainbridge Prepares’ Water Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Team. Those tickets are going fast.

You know that substance that falls throughout a good part of the year and makes mud, turning floors into dust rinks and dog undercarriages into shake-triggered couch-destruction devices?