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.
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.
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.
Heide Madden started the Farmers’ and Gardeners’ Guild growing space on Bainbridge Island. Join a field trip on August 23 from 10 to 11 a.m. to see their chickens, high-tunnel, and unusual varieties of vegetables and projects.
Darren Murphy, the president of Bainbridge Island Fruit Club, is hosting a tour of his property to show people how to grow fruits and vegetables in limited space.
Learn exactly when and how to plant for fall and winter in Bainbridge Prepares’ Veg Club video. Then turn to our Winter Crop Resource Page,
