Local Compost in Houston

Keeping compost local in Houston

OnFarmCompost is a Houston-area composting company, and keeping the loop local is the whole point. The food waste we collect from businesses across Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County goes directly to local farms and is sheet-composted on the land it will feed. Not trucked to a distant facility, not bagged and resold.

Compost that stays where it’s made

There’s no compost yard in our model. Food waste is spread and composted right on partner farms, and the finished compost stays on that land. If you’re looking to buy local compost by the bag, that’s not us. But if you want your business’s food waste to become local farm soil, that’s exactly us.

How local pickup works

Businesses (produce markets, supermarkets, grocers, produce operations, food producers) get 55-gallon food-grade drums with gasket-sealed lids, placed outside near the dumpster. Pickup runs weekly: we haul the full drums, weigh them, and leave clean ones, and commercial accounts get monthly ESG-ready diversion reporting.

What we accept

Organics need to arrive source-separated or depackaged; loads mixed with packaging or trash aren’t accepted. Within that, we take produce culls, trim, and overripe or unsold fruit and vegetables, coffee grounds, eggshells, and depackaged bulk dry goods such as flour and grain. 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 keep out meat, bones, dairy, and post-service plate scrapings, along with grease of every kind, paper of any kind including napkins and coffee filters, and plastics of any kind, including anything labeled “compostable.”

Where we pick up

We serve Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County. Because we’re local, we can confirm your route day and respond quickly.

For farmers: compost made on your land

The one way to get our compost is to be the farm it’s made on. We deliver food waste and animal manure, consult on compost and soil, or run full-service sheet composting on your property start to finish. Sheet composting builds organic matter on the land that will use it, with no yard, heavy equipment, or bagging step in between. Whether that beats buying finished compost depends on your site, crop, and current cost, so it is worked out per farm.

Keeping the loop in this region

Because we’re local, food waste from Houston-area kitchens doesn’t get trucked across the state. It’s composted right here, on farms in this region that put it to work, instead of producing landfill methane.

Support local composting

Call 713-822-3398 or contact us for weekly business pickup at $10 per barrel, or to talk about composting on your farm.