A few things we want to eat on repeat this month:
Cherries, sun warmed from the market
The season’s first strawberries over greek yogurt
morels in brown butter
spring onions on the grill
May produce teases summer, right around the bend.
Meet Mill: the kitchen upgrade you didn’t know you needed.
It’s not your average kitchen bin. The Mill food recycler turns food scraps into something useful — and clean. Food Grounds, not garbage. Cleaner kitchens. Fewer pests. And way less food waste.
There’s nowhere quite like an LA farmers market. So, we teamed up with @lacompost to pop up at a few of our favorite markets this month.
Angelenos, come say hi, learn more about keeping food out of landfills, and see Mill in person. Don't forget to bring your scraps!
PLAYA VISTA (Saturdays)
5/16, 5/23, 5/30
HOLLYWOOD (Sundays)
5/17, 5/24
ATWATER (Sundays)
5/17, 5/24
See you at the market 🌿
🌱GIVEAWAY 🌱
Spring cleaning shouldn’t come at the planet’s expense.
Households waste hundreds of pounds of food yearly, while billions of plastic cleaning containers end up in landfills.
We believe a cleaner home and a healthier planet should go hand in hand, so we teamed up with @blueland + @mill to bring you a more sustainable kitchen.
Prize includes:
— 1x Mill Food Recycler
— 1x Hill House Pinafore Apron, 1x Kitchen Drawer Bundle
— 1x Blueland Clean Suite Kit & 1x $100 Gift Card
To enter:
• Like this post
• Follow @mill , @hedleyandbennett , and @blueland
• Tag a friend in the comments
Bonus entries for every extra friend you tag.
Giveaway ends 5/18/26.
Open to U.S. residents 18+ only. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Winner will be selected at random and contacted via DM from this account only. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.
We have an exciting giveaway at some of our markets this month! 🎁
Visit @mill at Hollywood and Atwater Farmers’ Markets for the next two weeks to see their food recycler in action. Mill is the clean, easy way to prevent food waste at home. It transforms kitchen scraps overnight intoa dry, nutrient-rich resource that can help nourish your backyard garden or local soil with help from LA Compost.
Ready to welcome Mill into your kitchen? Check out their booth to learn how you can win one for FREE! 🥬🎉
📍Hollywood Farmers’ Market
📅 Sundays May 17th and May 24th, 8AM-1PM
1600 Ivar Ave (Cross Streets Ivar & Selma)
📍Atwater Village Farmers’ Market
📅 Sundays May 17th and May 24th, 9AM-2PM
3528 Larga Ave (Cross Streets Larga & Glendale)
Hot summer. Cool deal. $125 off Mill.
Early access to our Memorial Day Sale is here— just in time for your watermelon rinds, tomato tops, and peach pits.
Comment SUMMER for the promo code. ☀️
Feeding a growing boy means our kitchen is constantly full of fresh food… and scraps
Living in LA, we always have the windows open, so I love not having food scraps sitting around smelling or attracting bugs. We throw everything from peels to egg shells and avocado pits into the @mill Food Recycler and it’s made cleanup way easier while helping cut down on food waste.
In Los Angeles, LA Compost is reconnecting people to where food goes next.
We recently chatted with Ryan Jackson, @lacompost ’s Executive Director, about the important connections between soil, food systems, and community. . What began in 2013 as a small, community-led composting project, has grown into a network of 50 active neighborhood compost hubs across Los Angeles County — turning food scraps into soil, supporting urban gardens, and creating spaces where people can actually participate in the loop.
Their philosophy is simple: composting isn’t just waste management, it’s a community practice. It connects people to their food, their neighborhoods, and the land beneath them. And in a massive city like LA, where people are so spread apart, that connectivity matters.
t r a s h talking by the numbers:
1/3 of the world’s food production is wasted
10 % of global greenhouse gas emissions is from that food waste
= this is the same % as transit (read: food matters more than the car you drive).
20X more greenhouse gas emissions come from throwing food into landfill vs. food recycling or composting
“when you change the way you see things, the things you see change.”
—wayne dyer
trash is all about perspective.
in our house, we’ve been trying to shift how we think about food scraps — not as waste, but as something that still has value. what we don’t eat doesn’t have to be the end of the story.
with @mill , we’re able to recycle our food scraps right from our kitchen — turning them into dry, odorless grounds that can go back into our garden to help grow more food. it’s a small shift, but it’s helped us start to think about our home as part of a bigger loop.
from scraps ~ to grounds ~ back to the garden
it’s simple, fits into our routine, and something the whole family can be part of.
in our house we have a motto: instead of “why not?” we ask “why do?”
and this has been one of those small changes that just makes sense.
📷 @sarahdavis
Food waste is one of the world’s biggest problems— and one of the most solvable. But solving it takes more than good intentions. It takes partners willing to rethink the systems we’ve inherited.
This Stop Food Waste Day, our Co-founder & President Harry Tannenbaum joined Compass Group’s 10th annual celebration to share what we’ve been building: Mill Commercial. It’s made for the kitchens where food waste happens at scale— helping teams see what’s getting tossed, understand why, and turn what’s left into something useful.
Compass has been a dream partner in bringing our work into the world. They know commercial kitchens. We know food waste. Together, we’re working toward a future where food is valued, waste is designed out, and the loop gets a whole lot tighter.
Thank you to @cibchef Chris Ivens-Brown, @compassgroupusa , @foodtank , and Danielle Nierenberg for having these important conversations. We’re honored to be in the room, and even more excited for what comes next.
