North Carolina Cooperative Extension
Service
Rhonda Sherman
Extension Solid Waste Specialist
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Department
Box 7625, Raleigh, NC 27695-7625
Phone: (919) 515-6770
Fax: (919) 515-6772
E-mail: rhonda_sherman@ncsu.edu
Web site: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/people/faculty/sherman
Vermicomposting News - No. 4, April
1997 (revised 12/97)
In April 1997, I compiled a list of sites I knew about on the World Wide Web that addressed worms, vermicomposting, and composting. Although the list was only about half a page long, within a few months I had to reduce the font size and expand the margins to fit the web sites on two pages. By fall of 1997, I realized that so many wormy web sites had popped up that they would fill at least four pages. Now there are probably hundreds of sites.
To help you narrow down the choices of web sites, here are a few of my favorites:
Composter's Forum: Vermicomposting - an excellent
source of information! You can post questions and receive answers
from vermicomposting experts.
http://www.wormdigest.com
The Compost Resource Page - this serves as a hub of information for anyone interested in the various aspects of composting. http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost
Cornell Composting - has a wealth of information
on the science of composting and composting tips for schools.
http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/compost
Worm Digest - a quarterly newsletter, this is an excellent resource for the vermicomposting enthusiast. http://www.wormdigest.org
I decided not to post individual businesses on my list of favorite sites because I don't want to seem biased in favor of any private enterprises. However, I would like to bring to your attention an excellent newsletter called Casting Call, produced by Peter Bogdanov of Vermico. Pete has his finger on the pulse of vermicomposting activities world-wide and he reports this information quarterly in his newsletter. To see the topics of current and past issues of Casting Call, go to URL: http://www.vermico.com
The following web addresses were on my original two page list and they were posted to this page by my assistant several months ago before we got this site up and running. So I'm going to leave them here for you to browse through.
Aggrand Division, Amsoil Inc. - http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/amsoil/
Archives on the Internet -
gopher://sunsite.unc.edu:70/11/.pub/academic/agriculture/
sustainable_agriculture/vermiculture
Backyard Magic Composting Handbook - http://www.gov.nb.ca/environm/comucate/compost/magic.htm
BioCorp, Inc. - http://www.BiocorpUSA.com
Brian Paley's Home Page - http://arts.usask.ca/~dbp068/
The Burrow - http://gnv.fdt.net/~windle/
Can-O-Worms - http://www.viscor-dist.com/
Cold Weather Composting - http://www.luth.se/depts/lib/coldtech/ct93-2.html
Colorado State University CES Compost Education
Project -
http://www.colostate.edu/depts/coopext/tra/compost.html/comschl.html
Columbus Instruments - http://members.aol.com/cinstl/ciproduc.html
Composting - http://nwlink.com/~van/glcomp.html
Composting Collective - http://www.cafe.berkeley.edu/%7emlehman/cc/cc.html
Composting Council Bulletin Board - http://www.adgrafix.com/boardz/composting.html
Composting Council of Canada - http://www.compost.org
Composting News - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mcenteemedia/cn.html
Composting With Worms - http://www.wrfound.org.uk/Worms-IS.html
Compost Newsletter - http://www.intxpress.co.nz/green/environment/compost.html
The Compost Pile Meets the 1990's - http://www.acnatsci.org/erd/ea/compost2.html
Composting Research, University Potsdam, Germany - http://www.rec.hu/poland/wpa/net-msw.htm#compost
The Compost Resource Page - http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost
Compost System-Sustainable Building Sourcebook -
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/CompostSystem.html
Compost/Yard Waste - http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/gra/opa/publist/compost.html
Cornell Composting - http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/compost/Composting_Homepage.html
Cosmo's Red Worms - http://www.alcasoft.com/cosmos/ Directory of Composting
Documents - http://ekolpc1.vo.slu.se/Docs/www/Subject/Compost/
Earthperfect - http://www.zytek.com/earthperfect/what.html
Earthworms - http://www.cog.brown.edu/gardening/worms.html
Environmental Organization Web Directory - Recycling - http://www.webdirectory.com
The Enviro-Safe Store - http://www.olworld.com/olworld/mall
European Survey of Organic Waste Treatment - http://www.wrfound.org.uk/previous/WB47-organic.html
Fun With Compost - http://tfrec.ncw.net/Orchard/compost.html
Glacier Gold Compost Inc. - http://www.speakeasy.org/ggc/
Global Futures Home Page - http://www.quiknet.com/globalff/globcomp.html
Happy D Ranch Worm Farm - http://members.aol.com/hppydworms/happyd.htm
Institute for Regenerative Forestry - http://www.teleport.com/%7eskloos/ira/
Kazarie Worm Farm - http://www.afn.org/~kazarie/
Mulch Masters Inc. - http://www.jaxadnet.com/landscape&garden/
NaturTech Composting Systems - http://www.composter.com
National Agricultural Library - http://www.nalusda.gov/
North Carolina State University vermicomposting pubs - http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/people/faculty/sherman
Organic Fertilizer: Gardener's Tea Bag - http://www.av.gnet.com/%7esupak/gtb.html
Original Vermitech Systems - http://www.total.net/~jendoug/vermi/vermitech.html
Reotemp Instruments Home Page - http://www.electriciti.com/reotemp
RotWeb - http://net.indra.com/~topsoil/compost_menu.html
Scat Engineering Home Page - http://www/scat.com
Sustainable Building Sourcebook - http://www.greenbuilder.com/Sourcebook/CompostSystem.html
University of New Mexico composting publication - http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/cahe/redtops/_h/h-159.html
University of Wisconsin composting course - http://epd.www.engr.wisc.edu/iscourses/
Urban Agriculture Notes - http://www.cityfarmer.org/
User Guide for The Compost Website - http://ecologia.nier.org/english/usrguide/compost.html
Vermico - http://www.vermico.com
World Resource Foundation (anaerobic digestion) - http://www.wrfound.org.uk/AD-IS.html
The Worm Box - http://www.amz.com/thewormbox
Worm Digest - http://www.wormdigest.org
Worm Farm - http://www.wormfarm.com/
Worm Woman (Mary Appelhof) - http://www.wormwoman.com
Worm World (The Yucky Site) - http://www.nj.com/yucky/worm/
Please tell me about websites that should be added to this list. <sherman@eos.ncsu.edu>
This listing does not imply endorsement of these web sites nor criticism of similar web sites not listed.