Bainbridge aids food bank as need rises: 'No one should go hungry.'

In Heather Burger's decade leading Friends of the Farms , a nonprofit focused on sustaining local agriculture on Bainbridge Island, she never considered partnering with the Island’s local food bank.

Yet, seeing food insecurity surge in the last few years — a trend expected to grow alongside the Trump Administration’s gutting of safety net programs — getting involved became an imperative.

Friends responded by launching Share the Harvest in June, a grassroots and donation-run program that is buying local goods from ten farms on and around Bainbridge then donating them directly to Helpline House , a food bank on Hildebrand Lane.

“This is absolutely brand new [to us]. It wasn’t what we planned on doing this year,” Burger said. But “there’s never been anything that seemed more importan