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.

On Monday, August 25, four volunteers with the Bainbridge Prepares’ TechOps team deployed advanced drone and communications technologies to assist a joint wildfire training burn at the Bloedel Reserve.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for September is to make sure you are prepared for three specific types of disaster: earthquake, wildfire, and tsunami.

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.

It’s our tenth annual Day of Preparedness! Information booths, gear giveaways, door prizes. Take action and stop worrying.

After reviewing 90+ applications from across the country over the past two months, the Board of Directors has selected the new Bainbridge Prepares’ Executive Director.

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.

Bainbridge Island–based EcoAdapt recently released their Bainbridge Island Sea Level Rise Project Summary Report 2022-2025. The cover of the report shows Manitou Beach at high tide when the water level is just a few feet below the road surface.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for August is to make sure you have an emergency plan for your pets and any livestock. This plan must include the following:

In the past two years, the number of people coming to Helpline House food bank doubled. This spring, Helpline lost 40 percent of their funding to buy meat, dairy, and fruit and all of their funding to buy from local farms.

Just a reminder as the sweat pools behind your knees: Extreme heat can make you sick. Stay healthy by paying attention to the forecast and preparing accordingly.

The upcoming (2027) expansion of the Bainbridge Island Senior Center will enable the center, which is one of the Island’s Disaster Hubs, to serve full-time as a resilience hub.

Fieldstone of Bainbridge Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care hosts an annual summer party that raises money for a local cause. This year, the focus is on us!

Bainbridge-based EcoAdapt has just released a resource to help people with septic systems navigate the Climate Change–related effect of sea-level rise.

Our Prepare in a Year program helps you get ready for disasters, like large-scale earthquakes that isolate us from outside help for weeks or longer. By tackling one simple task per month, you can get your household in good shape by the end of a year. The task for July is to make sure you have a plan to get back together again If you are apart from your family when disaster strikes.

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,

Major cuts to federal funding are affecting local farms, the Helpline House food bank, and more than 400 local families. But Friends of the Farms has just launched an effort called Shared Harvest to counteract the effect of the cuts.

Bainbridge Island Fruit Club has joined the BP Food Resilience Team's Grow for Helpline initiative. They're thinning and protecting apples at the publicly owned Johnson Farm so they'll grow big and healthy for donation this fall.

The Prepare in a Year topic for June is getting home and getting away, which is all about preparing gear bags for different purposes. BP Founder Scott James will be giving a presentation at the library on go bags, reviewing what they’re for and what to pack in them.