It also takes a lot of land, water, fertilizer, and effort to get food from the farm to our tables — so we're committed to keeping food in the food system. This aligns with the EPA and UN food recovery hierarchies: First, feed people. Then, feed animals.
The Food Grounds from your Mill are already dry and full of nutritional value, which makes them a great chicken feed ingredient. Review our complete guide to chicken feed here.
If you have a Mill pickups subscription, we receive your shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe chicken feed ingredient. The facility inspects and aggregates Food Grounds, before removing contaminants, screening, pasteurizing, and homogenizing them to make a feed ingredient. After final testing, the feed ingredient is delivered to our farm partner Wilcox Farms, in Roy, Washington, or one of Mill's small farm partners. Learn more about our small farm partners here.