You can use them at home
Your grounds can be added to your compost pile, used in your garden, or dropped in your curbside organics bin. Check out this page for more details.
You can use them to supplement your backyard chickens’ diet
Remember that your Food Grounds are a mix of the food you couldn’t or didn’t eat and best used as a feed ingredient, not a full feed. You likely want to include other feed in your chickens’ diet too. There are some scraps that can be harmful and potentially toxic to chickens, like avocado pits and onions, so you’ll want to be careful adding those types of scraps, just as you might not feed them directly to your chickens if you didn’t have the Mill. Check out our guide to chicken feed here.
We can turn them into food for chickens
Don’t have a use for your Food Grounds at home? Opt into Mill pickups. Send them to Mill so they can go back to the farm as food for chickens. Mill pickups include home USPS pickup if eligible (just request it in the app) with postage-paid boxes and liners. We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe and nutritious chicken feed. The facility inspects and aggregates Food Grounds, before removing contaminants, screening, pasteurizing, and homogenizing them to make a feed ingredient. From there, they are delivered to Wilcox Farms in Roy, Washington (an hour south of Seattle). You can learn more about our small farm partners here.