TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ENVIRONMENT - Preferred Components: The second bed is left while permitting aeration for a time to dry the second bed to produce a compost product. The first bed is covered to prevent or limit desiccation of the feedstock. The worms introduced into the initial first bed are permitted to migrate to successive new first beds from successively formed new second beds that are removed in turn. The first bed is started afresh with new population of worms. A containment wall surrounds the two support mechanisms for containing the vermiculture feed stocks on the two support mechanism. The apparatus includes slats (14) arranged in side-by-side relationship to form vermiculture support, and slat mounting mechanism where each slate is mounted. Some of the slats are mounted in abutting side-by-side relationship to one another to width to support a first bed of feedstock for vermiculture and the remainder of the slats is arranged in spaced side-by-side relationship. The spacing provides for aeration of bed of vermiculture feedstock digested by colony of selected worms. The slat is in abutting relationship form first supporting mechanism. The spaced slats form second support mechanism. Te apparatus includes containment wall extending upward from its periphery for containing vermiculture feedstock on support. The removable cover is provided in operative association with first support mechanism for covering the first bed of vermiculture feedstock. The containment wall has height the same as the required depth of the first bed. The covering mechanism is mounted to the containment wall along side the first bed. Preferred Methods: The waste treatment is carried out in stage-wise continuous production environment by repeating the relevant steps or portions of the method, or carried out in starting at timed intervals to permit processing operations on some of the first and/or second beds while the remaining are undergoing vermicultural processing. The dry cast from the second bed is removed by pneumatic mechanism.