The Styrofoam Collection is our most asked-about Zero Waste event. Please help us to continue offering this valued community service by helping out on a shift or two on September 12 and/or 13.

Thank you to those who have already signed up. There are many slots still open. The first four hours on each day are when we especially need up to ten people. Students are welcome! Please go here to sign up.

Social distancing plans include masks, drivers remaining in vehicles and one bagger per station. The intense snapping we have done in the past will not be necessary since Safeway is providing a long-haul truck for transport of the material.

Full event details are available here.

You have until this Saturday, August 30, to see what creative minds can do with old clothes, leftover scrap material and odds and ends.

Stop in at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts to marvel at some of the Trashion outfits that would have graced the IslandWood runway at our canceled Trashion Show.

Each garment is accompanied by a descriptive card. Make sure to read the pun masterpiece by the Mystery Box designer!

Join the 5th annual Bainbridge Island Beach Cleanup on Sunday, September 20, sometime during the low-tide hours between noon and 3pm. All the details are here. Please sign up so that we have an idea of how many are participating and to see which shorelines are being covered. (Roadsides are fair game, too, as 80% of litter winding up in waterways starts from land.)

Ocean Conservancy tallies the items picked up worldwide. Please consider using the free CleanSwell app to record what you find on the beach.

The BIBC committee is giving out prizes for the craziest find and the most artistic expression using the litter collected. Go to the FAQ about prizes to see how to participate.

Donate your apples to Friends of the Farms between September 10-13 or September 24-27. Just place in a cardboard box and leave at Johnson Farm under the white tent adjacent the green barn in the gravel parking area, or text your address to 206-452-9754 and place your apples at the end of your driveway.  One of the FotF volunteers will pick them up. 

Local farmer and ciderist Michael Chick of St. Lô Cider will turn your overabundance into a fresh, hyper-local cider made from Bainbridge Island apples. For cider, crabapples, small hard apples and juicy tart apples are great, but they'll take them all! A portion of the proceeds will go directly to Friends of the Farm’s new Young Farmer’s Advisory Committee, a connection that will help support and encourage the next generation of farming on Bainbridge.

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