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Location: Buffalo, New York
Sector: Landscape and Gardening
Founded: 2012
Employee owned since: 2023
Number of employees at the time of transition: 5
Support from: ICA Group, Cooperation Buffalo
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Learn more
- WIVB – Farmer Pirates Compost turns trash intro treasure (2025) video
- Buffalo Rising – Farmer Pirates Compost Transitions to Worker Cooperative (2023)
- NPQ – Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network (2023)
- Cooperation Buffalo – Farmer Pirates Compost
- Step Out Buffalo – Curious About Composting? Get Involved in One of Farmer Pirates FREE Composting Programs (2023)
- New York State Pollution Prevention Institute – Farmer Pirates Compost (2022)
- Buffalo Business First: Scraps, please: Urban farmer Terra Dumas wants to compost your food waste (2019)
- Kickstarter – Farmer Pirates Compost Program (2012)
Employee Owned Small Businesses Supported by Cooperation Buffalo
