Want to grow food better, earlier, and longer?

In our March 5th Veg Club session, you’ll learn how to get weeks of more food from your garden with three succession planting strategies as well as how to protect early season plants, make heat lovers more productive, and extend your harvest season with unusually easy-to-make, easy-to-move protection.

The task for March is to create a water supply. This task involves storing an emergency water supply, protecting your existing water supply, gathering water treatment methods, and identifying backup water sources. Read more about water supplies here.

Sunday, February 25, was the perfect day for the annual Chilly Hilly bike ride on Bainbridge: There were the usual hills and it was bone-chilling cold. Eight members of the Bainbridge Prepares Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) skipped the hills but braved the chills for 2.5-hour shifts to provide first aid to the riders.

The task for February is to make an action plan. Creating an action plan involves deciding what to do when a disaster strikes and practicing it in advance. There are three main steps to creating an action plan.

The popular Veg Club returns for its 2024 season on February 6 with a class on achieving the best start for your garden. Learn how to choose the best site and bed type, where to get local amendments, and all about local community gardens so you can have a garden even if you have no space. You’ll also get Northwest-adapted seed sources and precise, region-specific planting calendars.

Bob Johansen, a futurist and author, and our own Scott James, founder of Bainbridge Prepares and author of Prepared Neighborhoods, will participate in an interactive dialogue about “Being Future-Ready in the Noisy Now” on January 23. The two will discuss the mindset it will take to thrive in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. They will look at how we can individually and collectively be more prepared in the present.

More than 100 fun-loving BP volunteers crammed into the Senior Center event room Friday night, December 15, to celebrate preparedness, our prepared community, and, most important, one another.

Coincidentally, November features the work anniversaries of two of our favorite people: Loren Bast, our beloved executive director who makes miracles happen, and Anne LeSage, the multitasking wizard also known as Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Bainbridge Island.