Spring Hasn’t Sprung BUT . . . Veg Club Is Sprouting
The Bainbridge Prepares’ Food Resilience Team Veg Club, as always, is itching to get started on another season of abundant growth. Nothing says emergency preparedness quite like a garden full of fruits and vegetables, and the first club meeting of 2026 is just around the corner.
This first session will show you how to set up your best food garden ever with locally adapted seed sources, the best NW planting calendars, options for beds, local compost comparisons, and locations of garden plots if you have no space of your own.
Come share your knowledge, too!.
The meeting happens Tuesday, February 3, from 6:30–7:30 p.m. on Zoom.
Presented by the Food Resilience Team : A non-emergent emergency food tasting event with wine pairings, games, and demos.
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.
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.
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,
Preparing for emergencies can be expensive. When it comes to building an emergency food supply, the high cost is exacerbated by the fact that food expires more quickly than other resources. Add to that the rising cost of food in 2025 and 2026, and you might be tempted to ignore the issue altogether.
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.
