Web Resources

Organizations in our community and state that support composting or provide resources for composters and gardeners:

 

• Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority (compost facility operations)

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• Albuquerque (Bernalillo County) Master Gardeners

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• Bernalillo County Cooperative Extension Office Website

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• Colorado State University Soil, Water, and Plant Testing Laboratory

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• Cornell Composting

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• New Mexico Environment Department, Solid Waste Bureau (training for municipal composting facility operators in NM)

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• New Mexico Healthy Soil Working Group

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• New Mexico Recycling Coalition (compost courses, etc.)

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• New Mexico State University Desert Blooms

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• New Mexico State University Yard and Garden

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• Rio Rancho: Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful

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• Sandoval County Master Gardeners

 

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

 

• US Composting Council

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Useful information about composting (primarily from government and educational institutions):

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• Beyond Recycling: Composting food scraps and soiled paper (report from Center for a Competitive Waste Industry)

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• Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Vermicomposting Horse Manure

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• Dirt! The Movie. You can watch it here on YouTube. This is a must-see, great resource.

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• eCommons@Cornell (master composter training manuals)

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• Home Composting Basics on YouTube Now (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)

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• Horticultural Myths (from Washington State University)

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• Landscape for Life (a sustainable home landscape tool)

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• Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States (EPA solid waste report)

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• New Mexico Environment Department, Solid Waste Bureau

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• The Soil Biology Primer (from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)

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• Vermicomposting (from College of Agriculture at New Mexico State University)