BP and Partners Host Fire Extinguisher Event — Bainbridge Prepares 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.

Take care of those fire extinguishers!

See ‘Women’s Work’ and Support Friends of the Farms — Bainbridge Prepares 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 farme...

Watch this Emmy-nominated film and support Friends of the Farms.

New ED Gets an Earful — Bainbridge Prepares Since assuming the position of Bainbridge Prepares’ Executive Director in early March, Stephen Richardson has immersed himself into learning about BP’s culture by meeting with 100 BP volunteers.

Find out what the new ED's hearing from volunteers!

Prepare in a Year 26: Medical — Bainbridge Prepares A disaster is likely to result in serious injuries, overwhelming the capacity of first responders. What will you be able to do to help your injured family members and neighbors?

April's Prepare in a Year activity is ready for you!

Grow More & Better in Small Spaces — Bainbridge Prepares 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,

Squeeze in those veggies!

BP Has “Something to Talk About” — Bainbridge Prepares BP’s new Executive Director Stephen Richardson and Devin James, Co-Chair of the BP Board, recently sat down with Reed Price, the Executive Director of the Senior Center. The occasion was the Somethi...

Find out what we're talking about!

Don’t Forget That Rainwater! — Bainbridge Prepares 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 Hygi...

Tickets are going fast!

Fine-Tune Your Household Communication Plan — Bainbridge Prepares This month in our Prepare in a Year program, we’re focusing on communication: the technology and the plans required to keep you and your family connected. Take a few minutes in March to think through ...

Use these scenarios and links to fine-tune your plan.

Rain! What Is It Good for? In Fact, Quite a Bit — Bainbridge Prepares 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?

Collect that rainwater! Learn how.

Prepare in a Year 26: Communications — Bainbridge Prepares When a disaster occurs, the first thing people want to do is find out what happened, get a sense of what will happen, and make sure the people they care about are okay. This month we focus on communic...

Prepare in a Year Month 3!

Reducing the Cost of an Emergency Food Supply — Bainbridge Prepares 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 tha...

Food prices got you down? Here's how to save on an emergency food supply.

Eating Healthfully Is a Resilience Practice — Bainbridge Prepares 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.

Join us for our next Veg Club!

BP’s 2025 in Review — Bainbridge Prepares 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...

What we did in 2025.

Presenting the Fort Ward Shed Mahal — Bainbridge Prepares In a large-scale earthquake, the South End is likely to be cut off from the rest of the Island, and residents there want to make sure they will have access to key emergency supplies so they can manage...

One mighty shed.

Prepare in a Year 26: Food — Bainbridge Prepares 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, ...

Prepare in a Year 26 Month 2: It's all about food!

Spring Hasn’t Sprung BUT . . . Veg Club Is Sprouting — Bainbridge Prepares The Bainbridge Prepares’ Food Resilience Team Veg Club, as always, is itching to get started on another season of abundant growth.

The first Veg Club of the year is just around the corner!

Learning Opportunities for Water Month — Bainbridge Prepares 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.

Don't miss the water presentation at the Library.

Prepare in a Year 26: Water — Bainbridge Prepares We’re starting our Prepare in a Year 26 program with water because, without it, you’re not going to last very long after a disaster.

Topic 1: Water. Let us help you get ready!

Prepare in a Year 2026!!! — Bainbridge Prepares Prepare in a Year 26 starts now. You can take care of all of your worries about being prepared for disasters by following our monthly readiness program, which tackles one topic per month.

Prepare in a Year 26 starts now!

How to Increase Your Resilience in 2026 — Bainbridge Prepares The Dumpster Fire of 2025 is coming to an end. We can hope for a better 2026, but there will certainly be more natural and unnatural disasters near and/or far in the upcoming year.

Goodbye 2025, Hello Resilience

This Season, Reach out to Your Neighbors — Bainbridge Prepares The two most important things you can do to prepare for emergencies are to ready your household and connect with your neighbors.

Knock on a few doors this holiday season.

Traveling Through Snow — Bainbridge Prepares — Bainbridge Prepares After our series of atmospheric rivers, we are now being gifted with blizzards in the Cascades and Olympics. Try not to travel through the mountain passes, but if you must then be sure to add these it...

If you absolutely have to drive through the mountain passes, read this.

Don’t Touch That! — Bainbridge Prepares With the wind whipping us all over the place today, it seems like a good time to remind everyone about Bainbridge Island Fire Department and Puget Sound Energy rules regarding downed wires:

A reminder about rules regarding downed wires.

Your Guide to Emergency-Ready Holiday Gifts — Bainbridge Prepares Nothing says I love you and care about you quite like the gift of emergency preparedness. Show your family and friends this holiday season that you’re thinking about them by giving them something they...

Need gift ideas?

How to Help Our Fellow Washingtonians — Bainbridge Prepares More than 70,000 (possibly as many as 100,000) people have been given evacuation orders during the current flooding of rivers in western Washington. All 10,000 residents of Burlington were asked to ev...

Your help can make a difference.

King Tides and a Whole Heckuvalotta Rain — Bainbridge Prepares The National Weather Service is predicting heavy rain for the next six days at least. The rainfall is coinciding with King Tides, between today and December 9. This combination puts low-lying areas at...

Live in a low-lying area? The City has sandbags.

Learn All About Map Your Neighborhood at the Library — Bainbridge Prepares 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 thr...

Got MYN FOMO?

Prepare in a Year 2025: Neighborhood and Community — Bainbridge Prepares 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 ...

The last Prepare in a Year activity of 2025!

‘Grow for Helpine’ Yields 3,000 Pounds of Food: Pinup Photos — Bainbridge Prepares The partnership between Bainbridge Island Fruit Club and the BP Food Resilience Team , an initiative called Grow for Helpline , generated more than 3,000 pounds of food for Helpline House i...

Community partnerships feeding Bainbridge Islanders

We are grateful for our resilient community, our hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and our prepared neighborhoods!