RESOURCES | home | who we are | order castings | facilities tour | methods | resources | if you have anything to add to these lists, please let us know. bay area resources A list of local worm vendors -- if you were looking for worms from us, here's where to look! Alameda County Waste Management Authority call their ROTLINE at 510.444.SOIL for answers to basic composting questions. good for troubleshooting. their website www.stopwaste.org is excellent. They have a great "how to do worm compost" guide and the list of local worm vendors. The Ecology Center - 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley offers classes, sells and loans many books, and houses a seed exchange library. call for hours and info: 510.548.2220. online Worm Digest maintains a great website devoted to worm composting, featuring past articles, commercial worm bin reviews and other resources. their Worm Forum is a good place to ask questions, or find answers to questions you haven't thought to ask. The Happy D Ranch has a useful freguently asked questions page, and also sells vermicomposting products (which we have neither used nor endorse). Green Mountain Technologies made our Earth Tub, and makes a number of other industrial-scale composting monsters. they're nice folks. These are also good compost resource pages: www.oldgrowth.org/compost www.mastercomposter.com bin plans Due to high demand, we've put something approaching plans for our vermitopias online. Hope they're useful. books Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Applehoff a classic and informative vermicomposting book. you can buy it, and lots of other exciting composting books, online at www.wormwoman.com The Rodale Book of Composting by Rodale Press, Inc. a great, readable book covering all types of composting as well as some nitty-gritty on soil structure.