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.
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.
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.
