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. 

Tomorrow, October 16, is the Great Shakeout, that one day every year on which we have the opportunity to share communitywide the experience of practicing for the biggest disaster we are likely to face here in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Earthquake.

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.

Last Saturday, September 20, between 10 and 1, more than 300 people stopped by Fire Station 21 to learn how to take the next steps to prepare their households for emergencies. Bainbridge Prepares volunteers had set up information tables in the temporarily empty Fire Station truck bays.

Due to recent road construction closures and detours, the entire Bainbridge community is now well aware of how the South End of Bainbridge Island is its own little island on a bigger island. That’s why the South End is throwing its own emergency preparedness party.

Last night at Seattle’s Town Hall as part of the Seattle Arts and Lectures series, activist Bill McKibben talked about his new book, Here Comes the Sun, which offers a welcome sign of hope for a planet that is experiencing a steady increase in climate-related disasters. That hope rises on the horizon every day and is powering more and more cities across the globe.

We call it Day of Preparedness, and it’s the best time all year to meet with the trained volunteers and team leads at Bainbridge Prepares and its partners—the City of Bainbridge Island and the Fire Department—to learn how to prepare your household.