The fall issue of PNW Bainbridge Magazine featured BP and it’s future-thinking approach to emergency preparedness.

On October 3, Bainbridge Prepares threw its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Kiana Lodge. About 100 guests gathered to reocognize the very special contributions of a few notable BP volunteers.

On October 5th, a sunny day, more than 150 south end Islanders gathered at their Disaster Hub—Fort Ward Community Hall—to tour the Hub.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year.

The task for November is to is to learn key skills.

Friends of the Farms is seeking another round of funding for its Share the Harvest program in response to a rise in food insecurity.

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.

It’s that time of year when the winds pick up and, if combined with soggy ground, trees fall. So let’s get ready for power outages.

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.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for October is to make sure you have quick and easy access to documents that could be inaccessible after a disaster or destroyed by it.

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.

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.

At the September 9 City Council meeting, councilmember Joe Deets read a proposed proclamation making September 2025 Community Preparedness Month.

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.

On Monday, August 25, four volunteers with the Bainbridge Prepares’ TechOps team deployed advanced drone and communications technologies to assist a joint wildfire training burn at the Bloedel Reserve.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for September is to make sure you are prepared for three specific types of disaster: earthquake, wildfire, and tsunami.

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.

After reviewing 90+ applications from across the country over the past two months, the Board of Directors has selected the new Bainbridge Prepares’ Executive Director.