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
• 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
• 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 Healthy Soil Working Group
• New Mexico Recycling Coalition (compost courses, etc.)
• New Mexico State University Desert Blooms
• New Mexico State University Yard and Garden
• Rio Rancho: Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful
• Sandoval County Master Gardeners

Organizations outside New Mexico that support composting or provide resources for composters and gardeners:

• US Composting Council

BCEMC:

• Handouts
• Online Classes
• Items in the left-hand menu where you are now under Composting Information