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2024

Help a small local farm, the climate, and yourself!  Join the food scrap pickup!

3/5/2024

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For people living near our farm, in Montague Village, Massachusetts, we have triple-win proposition: help a small local farm, the climate, and yourself!
​We are a small, permaculture farm in beautiful Montague, Mass.  We raise chickens, sheep, nuts, and berries. Our goal is to be 100% sustainable, local, climate- and wildlife-friendly. For our chickens, we want to eliminate the use of store-bought grains. Growing commercial poultry grains, even organic, use a lot of valuable farmland and resources, and is an inefficient way to produce eggs. Our alternative is to plant a chicken food forest with lots of forage - fruits, grains, squash, and greens - and feed the chickens food scraps.
To do this, we need your help. We need your food scraps. :) 

Here’s how it works:
+ We give you a 5-gallon food waste bucket.
+ You drop your food waste in it (including meat and dairy scraps)
+ Every week, you leave your filled (or half-filled) bucket out, we pick it up, and leave you a new one.  That’s it! So easy!  One less waste stream you need to worry about!

We need 20-30 households to get started. 
Will you join?
Text us at 781-428-1670 OR
Email [email protected] OR
Fill out the contact form below:
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2 Comments
Zoe Gardner
5/8/2025 03:30:11 pm

Hello!
I’m excited for this food scraps solution. I am a one person household and don’t have a lot of scraps, so I’m happy to bucket share with other folks on center st,
North st, or nearby if that’s helpful.

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babette
5/9/2025 09:35:33 am

hi zoe! thanks for your comment! great to have you join the food scrap route! we do the route on monday afternoon. we can leave you a five gallon bucket at your house; going forward you just cv leave the bucket with your scraps outside on monday and we will exchange it with an empty one. no need to fill it! what is your address and email and/or phone number?
thanks for joining!
babette

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    Babette WIls

    Babette is a permaculture farmer in Western Massachusetts.  She and people who are working with her on the farm are experimenting and learning on the go.

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