Register here for Sunday’s (June 7) Disaster Hub Open House at Bethany Lutheran.

Twenty-three of Bainbridge Prepares’ Wilderness First Responders (Woofers) spent the entire weekend, May 30–31, in a 22-hour crash course at BIFD Station 21 to renew their WFR credentials.

BI's publicly owned, historic Johnson Farm orchard has lots of apples that we can donate to Helpline House food bank, but only if they’re worm-free. To protect them without any chemicals, we need to thin and cover them on June 6.

Bainbridge Prepares in inviting you to visit our upcoming Disaster Hubs Open House at Bethany Lutheran Church. This is your opportunity to ask question of BP volunteers, learn how to prepare, and find out what services a Disaster Hub will offer after a major incident, like a significant earthquake.

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.

This past sunny Saturday, April 25, about 30 volunteers gathered outside a home in Blakely Harbor. They were gathered to participate in a wildfire evacuation exercise.

Saturday, May 9, you can take care of all your fire extinguisher needs: Get your extinguishers inspected, serviced replaced, and upgraded. You can also practice using them.

Women’s Work: The Untold Story of America’s Female Farmers sheds light on an essential history. The movie, which came out in 2024, focuses on the largely unknown and hidden experience of women farmers, especially Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, and Queer women farmers.

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,

If you haven’t reserved your tickets yet, do it now. Already 70 people have signed up for the Rainwater Collection for Emergencies presentation hosted by the Bainbridge Prepares’ Water Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Team. Those tickets are going fast.

You know that substance that falls throughout a good part of the year and makes mud, turning floors into dust rinks and dog undercarriages into shake-triggered couch-destruction devices?

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.

This month the Prepare in a Year topic is water. Do the Prepare in a Year activity (submit the form if you want to enter to win a prize), but also teach yourself more on the topic.

On Bainbridge Island, we use the Map Your Neighborhood (MYN) Program to help neighborhoods organize and prepare for disasters. To date, more than 54 percent of households on Bainbridge have gone through the program. If your neighborhood is one of the other 46 percent, you need to get connected.

On October 3, Bainbridge Prepares threw its annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Kiana Lodge. About 100 guests gathered to reocognize the very special contributions of a few notable BP volunteers.

On October 5th, a sunny day, more than 150 south end Islanders gathered at their Disaster Hub—Fort Ward Community Hall—to tour the Hub.

This Thursday, October 30, Lynwood Theatre is hosting a special screening of three scary movies in partnership with Bainbridge Prepares. The theme of the night is that there are scary events in life, but preparation can help you deal with them.

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.