Brenda Platt was awarded the prestigious Jerome Goldstein Lifetime Achievement Award by the US Composting Council.
ILSR's Home Composting 101 Guide covers the fundamentals of home composting, including benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and troubleshooting.
ILSR’s Vermicomposting 101 Guide covers the fundamentals of composting with worms, including worm facts, managing a worm bin, and how to harvest vermicompost.
ILSR’s Composting 101 Training Guide covers the fundamentals of community composting, including benefits of composting, building and managing a compost pile, and troubleshooting.
By implementing basic best practices, composters can keep rodents from becoming interested in their compost piles or establishing a habitat in their composting sites.
Community Composting 101 provides an overview of the importance of and science behind composting, and recommended best practices for implementing community-based programs.
These Composting Learning Activities are designed assist community composting sites in training their own community participants.
A webinar introducing post-fire soil contaminants of concern, microscopy, interpreting soil test results, and the role of compost in bioremediation.
This toolkit guides communities affected by wildfires and other sources of pollution on how to safely assess and remediate contaminated compost and soil.
The Compost and Soil Microscopy Mini-Course introduces the microbial life that exists in healthy soil and the basics of using a microscope and your senses...
Watch this webinar recording to hear how researchers and programs are measuring contamination and learn actionable strategies for using data to drive results.
These Spanish-language Composting Learning Activities are designed assist community composting sites in training their own community participants, as a hands-on complement to our Community Composting...
In this webinar, three presenters will share tips and lessons learned on how to use outreach and education to avoid contamination in drop-off and curbside...
In this webinar, three food scrap composters share tips and lessons learned about cutting contamination in their finished compost.
ILSR in collaboration with partners in Maryland has developed a pilot composter course for anyone interested in supporting composting initiatives in their communities.