Good food gone bad?

Ahoy! Farmer Pirates Compost is here to save your food scraps from ending up in the treacherous landfills.

Farmer Pirates Compost Quick Stats

  • 28,000 lbs

    average weight of food scraps diverted each week from WNY landfills

  • 900 yards

    of finished compost produced each year for local farms and gardens

  • 2,500+

    participating residents, organizations, and schools in our community

Farmer Pirates diverts food scraps from landfills and transforms them into nutrient-rich compost.

Our crew works hard to provide both high quality compost and composting services to the Buffalo area. Although the path is not often smooth sailing, what drives us onward is our passion to build a sustainable community where food scraps are not viewed as trash, but instead a bountiful resource that can be turned into a treasure to better our soils and food production. Arr!

A pile of vegetable scraps and eggshells
A person scraping food scraps off a cutting board into a paper bag
A front-end loader turning compost piles at Farmer Pirates site in Buffalo
A person's hand full of compost

Composting Services

Farmer Pirates Compost offers composting services to residents, businesses, schools, municipalities, and more in the Buffalo area. Our services aim to keep food scraps out of landfills in an easy and approachable way.

  • A green Farmer Pirates compost bucket with a pirate sticker on the front

    Residential Pickup

    Sick of throwing away food scraps?! Let us turn your trash into treasure. Collect your food scraps at home, leave your bucket outside on pick up day, and we will take care of the rest.

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  • A Farmer Pirates neighborhood drop off spot with a sign and a compost bin

    Neighborhood Drop Off

    Home pick up service not for you? Our neighborhood drop off may be the answer! Collect food scraps at home and drop off at your selected bin whenever you please.

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    Commercial Composting

    From restaurants, grocery stores and colleges to small offices and apartment buildings, we do it all. Our commercial composting service is customizable based on your composting needs.

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  • A child holding soil with earthworms and food scraps in it

    School Composting

    Looking to begin a composting program with your school? Farmer Pirates works with you to create a service that fits your budget and composting goals.

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  • Food scraps in a compost tote

    Municipal Composting

    Interested in helping start a program in your area? We collaborate with local towns and cities to launch municipal composting programs for residents.

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Learn About Composting

Have questions about composting with Farmer Pirates? Check out the pages below!

Why
Compost?

Discover what drives the Farmer Pirates Compost crew.

Compost What?

Find all the ayes and nays of what we accept here.

FAQs

You likely have questions. We (hopefully) have answers!

Resources

Learn about our local partners, composters, and lots more.

Get Compost. Get merch.

Folks love our logo. And our compost! Get ‘em both delivered to you.

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Order Compost

Get some of our nutrient rich compost made with locally sourced ingredients to use in your garden!

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Order Merch

Love what we do and our pirate logo? Head to our merch page and show your support.

About the Farmer Pirates

Curious about how we began and why we call ourselves Farmer Pirates Compost? Read our tale and meet the crew to get to know who runs our composting ship.

Our Tale

Find out the Farmer Pirates Compost story.

Our Crew

We think our crew is pretty cool. Find out why!

We’re Hiring

Wish to join the crew? Check to see if we have an opening.