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recommended reading

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'How to make and Use COMPOST the Ultimate guide' by Nicky Scott published February 2010 at £9.95 Green Books (www.greenbooks.co.uk)

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Composting - An Easy Household Guide   
Nicky Scott   
A to Z guide to home composting. £3.95 ea. Enquire at Green Books 01803 863260 for bulk prices.   
 
 
Composting for All   
Nicky Scott   
video and or DVD £10   
 
 
Composting for All   
Nicky Scott   
Published by Green Books at £1.95 but bulk discount prices available - please phone Green Books and haggle on 01803 863260 also pfd copy available from Home composting page


Reduce Reuse Recycle   
Nicky Scott   
easy to use guide to all your recycling questions published by Green Books at £3.95 Bulk discounts available   
 
Other Books & Videos
 
Another Kind of Garden   
Jean Pain   
   
 
 
Community Composting Guide   
Community Composting Network   
The 'toolkit' for the community network   
 
 
Composting the Natural Organic Way   
Dick Kitto   
Thorsons   
 
 
Earthworms Unlimited   
Amy Brown   
Kangaroo Press, Australia   
 
 
Gardening without Peat   
Graham Howell   
Friends of the Earth (UK)   
 
 
Lifting the Lid - an ecological…   
P Harper and L Halestrap   
   
 
 
Secrets of the Soil   
P. Tompkins and C. Bird   
Penguin/Arkana   
 
 
Sewage Solutions   
Grant, Moodie and Weedon   
Centre for Alt. Technology   
 
 
The Humanure Handbook   
Joe Jenkins   
Chelsea Green Publishing   
 
 
The Peat Alternative Manual   
Suki Price and Neil Bragg   
Friends of the Earth   
 
 
Vegetable Mould & Earthworms   
Charles Darwin   
published by John Murray 1897   
 
 
We want real food   
Graham Harvey    
all about how the mineral and vitamin content of our food has been degraded essential reading   
 
 
Worms Eat My Garbage   
Mary Appelhof   
   
 

Pages

  • becoming a composting expert
  • Download of first Community compost information pack 2003
  • Health and Safety
  • How Devon supports community composting
  • How to - Bins or bays?
  • improving quality - sieving
  • Legal considerations
  • Machinery - pro's and cons of shredders
  • Monitoring - temperature, moisture & sampling
  • overcoming barriers to composting
  • Planning permission
  • Planning your project
  • Pro's and Cons of Machinery
  • recommended reading
  • Running a project
  • Shredding is the last thing you should do!
  • Starting a project - getting support from the Council
  • Thumbnails of projects
  • Types of Project
  • Using a Shredder
  • Volunteers