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.
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.
Last year was a big one for Bainbridge Prepares as the organization moved into its 15th year of operation, struggled through some growing pains, and achieved some crucial organizational milestones. We reached out to Bainbridge Prepares Teams to get their recaps of last year’s accomplishments. This is what the teams shared.
The second most-important supply, after water, is food.
In a disaster, grocery stores will likely be closed for a while. But even if they are able to open, their supply will be cleared out quickly, and the disaster may make it impossible for stores to restock their shelves right away.
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.
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.
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.
