Reusable Recycled Feed Bag Totes
In 2018 we started our journey into livestock. As we progressed in our journey into milking goats, we were going through a lot of feed bags. Now I already like to recycle whatever we can, I took to the internet in search of " How to Recycle a Feed Bag" and I spent the night watching videos. The next morning, I broke out my sewing machine my husband bought me for Christmas 2 years prior and got to work. I made my first bag and right away texted my two closest friends. You won't believe what I made! They loved it, they would like a couple more, then posted on my Facebook, a few more friends wanted a couple more. then Will you take all my feed bags and do something with them! So, I started collecting feed bags from anyone that was going to throw them away and got to work. Booked my first craft fair and sold a few, started making gift baskets and attending a few more craft fairs. The end of 2020 we joined tik Tok and Instagram and decided to venture into social media a little bit more. I remember posting our first tik tok video of our reusable bags in July 2021, it reached over 100k views, and that month was the first time we sold over 200 bags across the United States.
Took us a full week of sewing and to fill all orders, we made it through! In November 2021 we opened our website, was super excited for it. Still new to technology we got our first order of bags right before Christmas. I was super excited about that; I rushed and filled the order. Boy did I learn a lot.
January of 2023 we dueted a video on tik Tok of someone throwing away feed bags and we said no don't do that send them to us and boy did that video take off at almost 3 million views and we almost sold out of our website, and we had many people wanting to send us their empty feed bags.
As of November 2023, we have kept over 17,000 empty feed bags out of landfill with 99% of that from our local landfill. We have made over 5000 reusable bags. 100's of stockings, many tablecloths and tarps, a pillow and an apron... the possibilities of what an empty feed bag can be made into are endless.
Reusable Bags Made out of Empty Feed Bags
Our Reusable Bag are made out of 100% empty feed bag. Feed bags are made out of material called woven polypropylene that is laminated with a biaxially oriented polypropylene film.
Collecting
We collect feed bags it has started out with just our local friends and family . now we have people from all over donating feed bags and joining our recyling journey. Each person who donates for the first time recicves some finished bags of their own to start their own recycling jouryney because it just doesnt end with recyling the feed bags its just starts there!
Our First Article
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Idaho Magazine
Novemeber 2021 Vol 21 No 2 Page 50-53.
One of our friends wrote a article on us about recycling feed bags and making totes out of them. It is a very interesting read from someone else preseprtive on recycling feed bags and why she didnt think of it years ago! She has been out biggest fan , biggest mentor through the whole process of the dairy as well as with our journey of recycling feed bags.
Many uses
There are hundreds if not 1000 or more uses for a reusable bag. Hauling groceries to storing things around the house. use them at farmers markets to haul plants or at the grocery store with that big haul of groceries.
