Compost Bins at Medford Grower’s Market

What do you do with the food scraps from your kitchen? Are you trying to find the best way to put your food scraps to good use? Instead of throwing them in the trash, Rogue Produce collects this valuable material and donates it to local farms. You can now bring your kitchen food scraps to Hawthorne Park on Thursdays when you visit the Medford Grower’s Market, and Rogue Produce will transfer the material to local farms who need it! Instead of rotting in the landfill, your scraps can help local farmers create nutrient rich compost for their soil, or use as supplemental feed for their animals.

It’s Easy

Rogue Produce places bins at the Medford Grower’s Market every Thursday morning. All you have to do is bring your veggie scraps (but no meat or fish) to the Market and dump your scraps into the bins we provide – and we do the rest! Sign-up today!

Supporting Local Farms

The benefit these food scraps provide to local farms is no small matter – it helps, tons! Listen to what Thomas Petersen, of Evers Ridge Farm, in Medford, has to say about the importance of receiving food scraps from Rogue Produce:

Thomas and Hannah of Evers Ridge Farm

“Starting our farm from scratch we realized the immense need for quality compost to improve soil health and increase water retention. When we found the food compost program from Rogue Produce it turned a huge expense into an affordable partnership. We’ve been able to process over 60k pounds of food scraps in the past couple of years then mix it with manure or leaves to make over 100k lbs. of compost for our farm, and we could use much more. As a local farmer in the valley, we need more of these food waste programs so we can decrease the cost of compost for farmers and help return the waste in our systems back into soil health.”

Free Market Bucks!

As an incentive to join our compost service, we’re providing the first 20 new subscribers with $5 in Market Tokens to spend at the Market! Sign-up today and we’ll be in touch to let you know how to collect your $5 in tokens.

Compost History

Rogue Produce has been collecting food scraps from homes in Ashland since 2011. In 2022 we started our first Community Compost Drop Site at the Ashland Grower’s Market as a lower-cost option to our customers. In 2024 we opened the same kind of drop site at the Medford Grower’s Market. Your participation helps our community utilize our resources in an optimal way, by diverting the valuable material of food scraps from the landfill and bringing this powerful soil amendment to local people who know how to use it best – the farmers! Help us grow our program by signing up for the Medford Grower’s Market Drop Site for less than $4 a week!

Rogue Produce also offers direct home pick up of your food scraps if you live in Ashland or Talent. Click here to learn more about direct home pick up and to explore other drop site locations.