
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
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28,000 lbs
average weight of food scraps diverted each week from WNY landfills
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900 yards
of finished compost produced each year for local farms and gardens
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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!
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.
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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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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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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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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.
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.
Order Compost
Get some of our nutrient rich compost made with locally sourced ingredients to use in your garden!
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.
