[USCC] Composting sampling class

[Matthew Cotton]

Carrie Gregory has taught a "how to sample compost" session as part  
of the Washington Organic Recycling Council's Compost Facility  
Operator Training course for a number of years now. She did an  
excellent indoor version of this (at the WORC class she does it at a  
facility, so you really get a sense of how to approach a pile) at the  
USCC Annual Conference in Oakland during the "Tools of the Trade"  
session. If Carrie is willing and available this will become an  
annual part of the "Tools of the Trade Session", as it was very well- 
received.

Wood's End Labs has an excellent sampling document on their website  
as does the Recycled Organics Unit at the University of New South  
Wales (Australia). I'm sure there is other guidance out there. I  
believe most (if not all) of the sampling language in the TMECC was  
taken from the Wood's End document.

I'm not aware of anyone "certifying" compost samplers in CA (or  
elsewhere). When the California Compost Quality Council (somewhat of  
a pre-cursor to the current STA program) was inspecting participating  
facilities for their program, they used trained inspectors from the  
California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) farm inspection program.   
Many of these were located in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area. You might  
try shooting an email to CCOF or OMRI to see if they have any  
inspectors available who want to do compost sample taking training.

Matthew Cotton
Integrated Waste Management Consulting, LLC
19375 Lake City Road
Nevada City, CA  95959
(530) 265-4560
Fax (530) 265-4547
matt at mattcotton.com
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On Apr 10, 2008, at 3:36 PM, frank wrote:

> Frank
> That sounds good to add it to the USCC training cources. Perhaps  
> the S&P
> could develope a course outline.
> Then scientist and composters could, by filling it in, put together a
> real world sampling protocol.
>
> Frank
>
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> .
>
> Frank Franciosi wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> Past schools taught in North Carolina we covered this topic  
>> briefly. This is
>> a good topic to add to the new USCC Training Course. I'll add it  
>> to the PCC
>> topics list. We could also add it as STA event at the 2009  
>> Conference or
>> maybe a condensed version of TMECC sampling protocol in news  
>> letter. If you
>> have some ideas I would like to hear about them.
>>
>> Frank Franciosi
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: compost-bounces at mailman.cloudnet.com
>> [mailto:compost-bounces at mailman.cloudnet.com] On Behalf Of frank
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:48 PM
>> To: Compost Discussion List
>> Subject: [USCC] Coposting sampling class
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We get requests for training personal and certifying them in compost
>> sampling. Anyone doing that? Does USCC have a program for that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> frank
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