RESOURCES

The companies and organizations below offer advice and products for the home gardener. Many states also have their own organic gardening organizations, so an internet search may be helpful to narrow down your information to your specific state.

INFORMATION & ADVICE

Charles Dowding
A leading proponent of the no-dig method of gardening, who explains how to use composts for mulching soils.
https://charlesdowding.co.uk

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden
An educational guide with helpful articles, resources, and programs for the beginning composter, from one of the nation’s leading botanical gardens.
https://www.bbg.org/gardening/composting

Environmental Protection Agency
Tips, overviews, and helpful resource links to composting resources in the US, as well as state-specific information from the Department of Agriculture.
https://www.epa.gov/recycle/composting-home

Fine Gardening
Podcasts, articles, and videos that give advice to the gardener and composter, which can be narrowed down by region.
https://www.finegardening.com/

Green Venture
Educational not-for-profit organization that provides information on composting and eco-friendly gardening.
https://greenventure.ca

Grow Organic
An online gardening resource center with instructional composting videos, articles, checklists, and calculators.
https://www.groworganic.com/pages/resource-center

National Gardening Association
A wealth of helpful information on gardening is contained here, including calendars, information on plants and zones, checklists, and online tools, as well as the world’s largest database of plants.
https://garden.org/

Rodale Institute
An organization dedicated to growing the regenerative organic movement through research and training. Offers articles on all aspects of composting.
https://rodaleinstitute.org/

US Composting Council
A site primarily dedicated to commercial production and use of compost, it does however contain an immensely helpful, state-by-state list of what they consider to be the most helpful resource links for each state.
https://www.compostingcouncil.org/page/Education

COMPOST BIN SUPPLIERS

Earth Easy
Offers information and products for sustainable living that also reduces our impact on the environment. A large selection of composting bins and accessories, as well as green home products.
https://eartheasy.com/

Gardener’s Supply
Offers a wide range of composting mixes, tea bags, bins, and worms, as well as planters, raised beds, plant stand trays, and a dizzying array gardening accessories.
https://www.gardeners.com/

Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm
A wormer specializing in red wigglers (compost worms). A wide selection of worms and worm kits, food and bedding, as well as compost bins and organic pest control and fertilizer.
https://unclejimswormfarm.com/

Lehman’s
A site for living the simpler life, with composting supplies focused on the kitchen or indoor composter.
https://www.lehmans.com/category/composting#

BIBLIOGRAPHY

What is Soil? British Society of Soil Science, https://soils.org.uk

Nature’s Compost The Woodland Trust: Woodwise leaflet, downloadable from www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

Benefiting The Environment UK Statistics on Waste, 2020; www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data Facts and Figures about Materials, Waste and Recycling,
www.epa.gov

What is Mulch? WRAP: Using quality compost to benefit crops, www.wrap.org.uk

Mulching Problems and Solutions Scharenbroch, B, and Watson, G.W: ‘Wood chips and compost improve soil quality and increase growth of Acer rubrum and Betula nigra in compacted urban soil’, Aboriculture & Urban Forestry, November 2014, 40(6):319–331