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)

• 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

 

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)

• Colorado State University Cooperative Extension, Vermicomposting Horse Manure

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

• 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

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

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