Master Composter display booth

Compost outreach display, Tompkins County

Master composter volunteer (right) shows contents of worm composting bin to Nathalie Smallidge, Stephanie Terwilliger, Annie Seichepin & Adelaide Smallidge at Farm City Day 2005
Image by Sandy Repp

Vermicomposting (with worms) in a bin

Vegetable parings
Image by Diligent

From vegetable scraps ...

...to the finished product! Rich brown compost is easy to make!

Compost heap on a frosty morning. The rising steam shows that the bacterial action in the compost heap is exothermic.
Image by Andrew Dunn

to the compost heap...

Compost Resources

The following resources were developed by the Compost Education Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County.

General Information


Outdoor Composting


Indoor Composting with a Worm Bin


More Compost Topics



Last updated October 21, 2022