Chickencycling is the new eco-trend of recycling food scraps by feeding them to chickens instead of composting them

I teamed up with the world’s best bagel place and put my own backyard flock on the line to explore the trend.

Emily Winston of Boichik Bagels gave me the leftover corn & seed mush that results from baking her bagels

When I got home, I called over my flock and they eagerly descended on the mushy leftovers.

160 billion pounds of food are wasted in the US each year.

A Harvard report says that feeding food scraps to animals could help reduce this waste. Swipe up to read more.