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.

BP Founder and Board President Scott James “visited” Camano Island May 29 through an online presentation to share the Bainbridge Prepares Model with residents there. He was the guest of Camano Preparedness Group, an emergency readiness organization fashioned after BP.

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.

Learn how real home gardeners integrate a mix of vegetables, fruit, ornamentals, and homemade garden structures.

On Saturday, Partners in Health (PIH) continues its fight against tuberculosis (TB) with an event—Partners in Poetry—at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.

The Emergency Prep series at the library continues in May with a focus on CPR. May 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Bainbridge Public Library, you can learn how to administr CPR and use an AED.

Our local food banks are more stressed than ever and anticipate even greater need in the coming months. You can make a difference at Peaceful Morning Farm, where an all-volunteer staff grows food exclusively for local food banks.

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.

Veg Club in May will show you how to get weeks’ more food from your garden with three succession planting strategies.

Because we’ve done so much, it’s impossible to show it all in just a few minutes. But this Action Recap video compiled by our very own superstar Neal McConnell manages to catch a lot of our ongoing work.

Tickets to our fundraiser brunch are selling fast. Soon, even though you desperately want a one-of-a-kind Bay Hay–style and -sanctioned BP signature sweatshirt, you won’t be able to get one.

Our food banks face a perfect storm in which loss of individual food assistance programs will drive more people to food banks, while cuts to federal inputs will drastically lower the banks’ ability to feed people. But there is something you can do to help.