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Farmer Pirates Compost - A worker owned cooperative

Founded in 2014 with the mission of producing high quality compost using locally sourced material, we have evolved with an ever expanding focus on reducing the amount of organic material (aka food scraps)  entering the landfill.  By collecting and then diverting this material to  our compost facility we create a nutrient dense natural fertilizer that can be used to enrich the soil and reduce potent greenhouse gasses emitted from landfills, which provide benefits to our community as a whole. 

In 2024 we collected and composted 1,417,011 pounds of food scraps to make approximately 700 yards of finished compost to feed local farms and gardens!

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Farmer Pirates Compost currently runs a variety of food scrap collection services:

• Commercial Service to 40+ business, schools, organizations

• Residential Bucket Service to 5+ suburbs in greater Buffalo

• Municipal & Neighborhood Drop off Composting programs: 10 locations

• City of Buffalo Scrap It! Curbside Pilot Program: 2000 households

We run multiple routes 5 days per week with a current fleet of 3 vehicles, soon to expand to 5. 

Farmer Pirates also operates a 4 acre composting facility in East Buffalo where we process all organic material we collect. Each Spring and Fall we run a compost sales season when we make the finished compost produced available to local farmers and gardeners.

We are on a steady growth trend and are constantly developing and refining our services and internal operations to be the best we can be. We are a passionate, welcoming team of worker-owners who believe in what we do and are excited to expand our team! As a worker owned cooperative we offer each employee the opportunity and a clear path to becoming a worker-owner in the business.