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 Service​

• 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 Southwest 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

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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)​

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

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

• Horticultural Myths (from Washington State University)​​

• Landscape for Life (a sustainable home landscape tool from Colorado State University)

• Master Composter Training Manual (from Cornell)​

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

• The Soil Science (from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)​

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