Nest and mullen LLC has been a small family run meat processing business in kennebunk, maine since the late 1920S

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Nest And Mullen LLC through the Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grants – Supplemental Funding program. The grant will support Nest And Mullen's efforts to rebuild and expand its meat processing facility in Kennebunk, Maine after a devastating fire destroyed its previous plant in September 2020. As a small, family-run business established in the 1920s, Nest And Mullen provides meat processing services to local customers but was forced to temporarily operate out of a much smaller replacement building while seeking funds to properly reconstruct its operations. The grant will enable the company to construct a new, state-inspected plant with expanded capabilities like a killfloor, cooler, freezer and rail system to resume and grow its meat processing services for the community and local economy. The award has a completion date of August 31, 2024.

This past year has been exceedingly difficult for US. On september 17TH, 2020, we suffered a devastating fire that destroyed our 50' x 60' plant and left US with over 17,000LBS of meat to replace for our customers. Our building was a total loss and with appointments already stretching over a year out we were forced to close until we could build a small 16' x 30' temporary building. The temporary building is too small to use forever, IT lacks a killfloor, cooler, freezer and rail system. We have been renting a killfloor from a neighboring plant, hand lugging meat in and out of our temporary reefers/freezers and using reefer trucks and trailers to hold product. With this grant and our 5 generations of experience in the industry we can have hope at rebuilding and continuing on in the meat processing business. We would be humbled by the chance to use this money to build back better and become a state inspected plant. We want to provide our service to more people and continue to be an integral part of our local community and economy