Compost Service in Houston
A Houston compost service built for businesses
OnFarmCompost is a compost service for businesses across Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County. We handle weekly vegetative food-waste pickup for produce markets, supermarkets, grocers, produce operations, and food producers that keep their organics separated, and the material goes straight to local farms, where it’s sheet-composted on the land it will feed.
How the service works
Businesses get 55-gallon food-grade drums with gasket-sealed lids, placed outside near the dumpster. Your kitchen crew keeps its own lined garbage can inside, ties the liner like a normal trash bag, and carries it to the drum instead of the dumpster. On your weekly route day, we haul the full drums, weigh them, and leave clean ones. A filled drum runs 100 to 200 pounds, so that’s our job.
Reporting
Commercial accounts get a monthly ESG-ready diversion report covering tonnage, methane avoided, and contamination rate, built from the actual weights of your drums.
What we accept
Organics must arrive source-separated or depackaged. Loads mixed with packaging, cardboard, or general trash aren’t accepted, since sorting on arrival isn’t a service we offer.
- Produce culls, trim, and overripe or unsold fruit and vegetables
- Bulk dry goods, depackaged: flour, grain, expired shelf-stable produce
- Coffee grounds and eggshells
We keep out meat, bones, dairy, and post-service plate scrapings. Composting happens on working farms rather than at a permitted facility, and a vegetative feedstock is what lets those farms take material without changing their regulatory footing. We also keep out grease of every kind including fryer oil, paper of any kind including napkins and coffee filters, and plastics of any kind, including anything labeled “compostable.”
Where the compost goes
Your food waste goes directly to local farms and is sheet-composted on the land it will feed. The finished compost stays on those farms. It isn’t bagged, resold, or returned. That’s the point: no compost yard, no heavy-equipment overhead, just waste becoming farmland soil.
Service area and pricing
We serve Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County. $10 per barrel, no contract. Service is scoped to your drum count after a free waste audit and a 1-week free trial.
Drums built for Houston weather
Open bins smell and draw pests, especially in Houston’s heat and humidity. Our gasket-sealed drums are built for that reality. An intact lid contains odor and limits pest access while closed, and weekly exchange keeps material from sitting long.
For farmers too
We’re a dual-client operation. If you’re a farmer or landowner in the area, we deliver food waste and manure, consult on compost and soil, or run full-service composting on your property from start to finish. Sheet composting builds soil on the land that will use it. Whether it beats buying finished compost depends on your site, crop, and current cost, so it is worked out per farm.
Start your service
Call 713-822-3398 or contact us. We’ll run a free waste audit, confirm your route day, and set up your trial week.
Related Questions
Do you serve homes or businesses?
Businesses only, and only when organics arrive source-separated or depackaged: produce markets, supermarkets, grocers, produce operations, and food producers. We also work with farmers who want compost made on their own land.
How often is pickup?
Weekly, on a set schedule. We exchange drums: haul the full ones, weigh them, and leave clean ones. We confirm your route day when you sign up.
What does it cost?
$10 per barrel, no contract. We start with a free waste audit and a 1-week free trial, then scope drum count to your volume.