How to Help More with Local Food Insecurity
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.
Share your ideas and learn more tricks for easily getting weeks’ more food out of your garden or orchard. Find out how to help a farmer while you learn to grow food.
Attendees will get
free seeds to grow for the food bank.
supplement packets to reduce brown spots and improve quality of stored apples.
free help in your garden or orchard on any crop bound for Helpline House.
a hands-on tutorial and comparison of different ways to prevent apple "worms."
The gathering happens Thursday, May 28, from 6 to 8 pm., at Grange Hall, 10340 Madison Ave NE, Bainbridge Island.
See you there!
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.
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,
Healthy eating improves gut health, and one of the best ways to achieve that is through growing and eating your own food. But some of us don’t have space for a large garden.
The Bainbridge Prepares’ Food Resilience Team Veg Club, as always, is itching to get started on another season of abundant growth.
The partnership between Bainbridge Island Fruit Club and the BP Food Resilience Team, an initiative called Grow for Helpline, generated more than 3,000 pounds of food for Helpline House in 2025. Helpline House, the local food pantry, is experiencing a new level of stress generated by federal cuts to food aid and increased usage of its services.
Friends of the Farms is seeking another round of funding for its Share the Harvest program in response to a rise in food insecurity.
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.
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.
