Web Resources
Bernalillo County Extension Master Composters
Useful information about composting:
- Beyond Recycling: Composting food scraps and soiled paper (report from Center for a Competitive Waste Industry)
- Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Vermicomposting Horse Manure
- Compost Microbiology and the Soil Food Web
- Composting In the Desert (our own BCEMC brochure)
- Dirt! The Movie. You can watch it here on YouTube.
- eCommons@Cornell (master composter training manuals)
- Horticultural Myths (from Washington State University)
- Landscape for Life (a sustainable home landscape tool)
- Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States (EPA solid waste report)
- New Mexico Environment Department, Solid Waste Bureau
- Soil Biological Communities (from National Science and Technology Center)
- Selecting a Method that Works for You (our own BCEMC brochure)
- The Soil Biology Primer (from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)
- Vermicomposting (from College of Agriculture at New Mexico State University]
Organizations in our community and state that support composting or provide resources for composters and gardeners:
- Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority (compost facility operations)
- Albuquerque (Bernalillo County) Master Gardeners
- Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension Office Website
- Colorado State University Soil, Water, and Plant Testing Laboratory
- Cornell Composting
- New Mexico Environment Department, Solid Waste Bureau (training for municipal composting facility operators in NM)
- New Mexico Recycling Coalition (compost courses, etc.)
- New Mexico State University Desert Blooms
- New Mexico State University Yard and Garden
- Querencia Green
- Rio Rancho: Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful
- Sandoval County Master Gardeners