Meet our farm partners

When it comes to keeping food out of the trash, dropping pizza crusts, last week’s leftovers and mushy cucumbers in your Mill is only half the equation. Mill’s network of farms helps us close the loop, and recycle the food we can’t eat into food for chickens and compost. Together, we can keep food in the food system and out of the landfill.

Here are a few of the farmers who care deeply about the land and the planet that we are privileged to work with.

Meet Ulyssa Munoz of Victorious Echo Acres

Victorious Echo Acres is a resource for the Northwest Washington community, including the rescued goats, geese, pigs and ducks that call the farm home. Eggs from Ulyssa’s hundreds of chickens are sold in an honor box at the end of her driveway. Ulyssa keeps the price low, at just $4 a dozen, so that her community can afford them even when in a pinch.

Ulyssa’s chickens were some of the first to munch down on Mill Meal. They love it so much that most of them prefer it over any other feed. Even Strawberry, Ulyssa’s friendly house chicken.

Meet Matt Steinman of Foothills Farms

Matt began Foothills Farms on his grandparents' land in Northwest Washington after feeling a calling to agriculture. Today, the farm spans hundreds of acres of diversified vegetables and berries. And he polyculturally runs chickens to keep the soil healthy. 

Polycultural farming means that Matt rotates what is grown on the farms’ many plots. One of those rotations is cover crop, which the chickens eat. It fertilizes the soil beneath so that the next rotation, various types of vegetables, will be nutritious and delicious. 

Matt has supported the development of Mill Meal in many ways, providing feedback and insight and endless inspiration.

Meet JD Hill of Recycled City

JD is a pioneer when it comes to keeping food out of the trash. He started collecting food waste in the Phoenix area, when he launched Recycled City, over a decade ago. At first, he could be seen pedaling his bike around neighborhoods with a trailer hitched on the back, full of scraps from homes and restaurants. Today he’s got a fleet of trucks,a team that services over 1,200 square miles and a farm connecting Phoenix back to its agricultural roots. 

The uneaten food that JD picks up is composted on the farm and used to grow seasonal produce, everything from herbs to tomatoes and peppers. That produce goes right back to feed the community, through farmers markets and produce boxes. 

Because Mill makes dealing with uneaten food clean and effortless, fears of stink and pests don’t scare people off anymore, growing R. City’s customer base.  Easy, simple and clean, Mill has helped more people be part of the closed-loop cycle.

Stay tuned as we share more about the incredible stewards of land that we are are lucky to partner with.