You can contact many other places from here.
Link to The Happy Heap animation
a small film I made at the Forkberad Fantasy Summer School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysn_hnQRBOwChoose your link. www.chagfordhub.com
Community
Composting Network (CCN)
67 Alexandra Road
Sheffield S2 3EE
Tel 0114 258 0483
www.communitycompost.org
The Community Composting Network supports and promotes the community
management and use of waste biodegradable resources. Projects range in scale
from individuals or small groups working on allotment sites or promoting home
composting, to social enterprises with local authority contracts providing
kerbside collection services.
Also see
This website show what is happening across Europe and has some useful
downloadable documents
www.growingwithcompost.org
The Community Composting Network has been working with the New
Economics Foundation and The Open University the following website features
‘Unlocking the potential of community composting’ which showed just how
important community composting projects can be to their community and how they
can develop into so many other areas.
see
http://www.valuingcommunitycomposting.org.uk/page.cfm
<br>How to make compost - the ultimate guide
Download Compost Flyer 1 to a page
Green Books
www.greenbooks.co.uk
The Worm Research Centre is also the home of ‘Green Machine Solutions’
Steve Ross-Smith and Nicky Scott collaborated on the design of ‘Scotty’s Hot
Box’ and the ‘Scotspin’ and Green machine manufacture these products as well as
Worm Pods, Worm Bags and compost screening equipment. They also work with the
Open University on worm research and are ‘Compost Doctors’.
Phoenix
Farm
Asselby
Howden
East
Yorkshire
DN14
7HF
01757
630456
Biochar (Terra preta)
The rediscovery of using
charcoal as a soil improvement has resulted in enormous interest in carrying
out research projects of all kinds. For a wealth of information have a look at
this site
http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org
compost teas
for masses of information about compost tea and compost extracts, how
to make them, slide shows and articles this is a great place to start.
www.attra.org/attra-pub/compost-tea-notes.html#compostteas
Compost
Cornell University website that I have visited regularly as a great
source of information
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/Composting_homepage.html
As an ex Henry
Doubleday student and member I regularly visit the Garden organic website if
you are not a member have a look and browse their excellent catalogue.
The Daily Dump
all about composting in Bangalore, They take the hard work out of
composting by offering a compost service, coming to your house to look after
your compost for you. They use attractive ceramic pots stacked on top of each
other as their composters which not only fit neatly into small spaces, such as
the balcony on a flat, but look really attractive too.
Some excellent information on composting and compost reads on this
site. See reviews and précis accounts of compost in the ‘small farms library’
section. Very comprehensive site with lots of links to interesting projects and
information on organic growing and composting.
Washington State University website has proved very useful for me
http://whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/compost/
If you want to find out about large scale composting in the States then
BioCycle is for you. I used to subscribe to BioCycle magazine and it does have
some interesting stuff although geared around the really big compost makers
mostly.
www.biocycle.net/
Fungi
Paul Stamets’ website
If you want to find out all about fungi how to grow edible and
medicinal fungi and how they are used in ‘mycoremediation’ i.e cleaning up
polluted soils then look at this website and get hold of Paul Stamets books,
very inspirational www.fungi.com
No-dig
Charles Dowding is a very
experienced organic grower who doesn’t dig!
His website is very well laid out and a mine of information, just like
his excellent books, also find out about the courses he regularly runs.www.charlesdowding.co.uk
Rock dust
The Seer centre in Scotland has great claims about using
rock dust both to improve soils and crops but also to help combat climate
change. They have been strongly endorsed by Graham Harvey in his excellent book
‘We want real food’ (also see www.wewantrealfood.co.uk)
Soil
food web – Elaine Ingham
Elaine Ingham has produced many lectures on soil, compost tea and
compost, which you can buy from this site – she has written the definitive
guide on compost tea brewing – but you may be better off going onto YouTube and
seeing how to do it.
all things wiggly! and a great catalogue of stuff!
http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/