Books about Composting from Amazon.com



Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides)
In 1975, Let it Rot! helped start the composting movement and taught gardeners everywhere how to recycle waste to create soil-nourishing compost. Contains advice for starting and maintaining a composting system, building bins, and using compost. Third Edition. 267,000 copies in print.

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Price: $7.50 [Notify me when price goes down.]



Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System
The definitive guide to vermicomposting-a process using redworms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich food for plants. Newly revised and updated, this 162 page manual provides complete illustrated instructions on setting up and maintaining small-scale worm composting systems. Topics include different bins, what kind of worms to use, sex life of a worm, preparing worm beddings, how to meet the needs of the worms, what kinds of foods to feed the worms, harvesting worms, and making potting soil from the vermicompost produced. A 63 page bibliography, 24 annotated references, a glossary,and comprehensive index make this a valuabe reference book as well as a practical manual..
Price: $7.54 [Notify me when price goes down.]


The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition
There are almost seven billion defecating people on planet Earth, but few who have any clue about how to constructively handle the burgeoning mountain of human crap. The Humanure Handbook, third edition, will amuse you, educate you, and possibly offend you, but it will certainly pertain to you—unless, of course, your bowels never move.
This new edition of The Humanure Handbook is:
  • The Tenth Anniversary Edition
  • Richly illustrated with eye-candy artwork
  • Perfect for reading while sitting on the “throne”
  • Revised, improved, and updated
  • 256 pages of crap.
    Price: $15.47 [Notify me when price goes down.]


  • The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener
    The essential guide to composting for all gardeners and enviromentally conscious peopleComposting is fast becoming a household word. Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil, while others look to composting as a way to dispose of grass clippings, autumn leaves, and tree trimmings. The Rodale Book of Composting offers:* Easy-to-follow instructions for making and using compost* Helpful tips for apartment dwellers, suburbanites, farmers and community leaders* Ecologically sound solutions to growing waste disposal problems
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    Price: $6.09 [Notify me when price goes down.]


    Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings
    There have been many articles over the years about the benefits of composting for gardeners, but living in the city without a yard, this reviewer never really thought it was something that would apply to me with my handful of flower boxes and potted plants outside. Joke's on me! This book tells you everything you need to know about composting and household refuse, and most importantly, how to get STARTED, and will be enough to convince you to finally get organized and go for it..
    Price: $2.45 [Notify me when price goes down.]


    Composting: An Easy Household Guide (The Chelsea Green Guides)
    COMPOSTING: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE
    THE CHELSEA GREEN GUIDES—A NEW SERIES OF POCKET-SIZED BOOKS TO HELP SAVE THE EARTH!

    Did you know that up to two-thirds of most household trash can be composted? That composting reduces the need for more landfills? Composting is fun and easy! And you can make compost even if you live in an apartment and don’t have access to a garden. This book provides all the information you need for successful composting—a satisfying way to live lightly on Earth. Also available:
    WATER: USE LESS—SAVE MORE
    ENERGY: USE LESS—SAVE MORE
    REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDE
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    Price: $3.84 [Notify me when price goes down.]


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