TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - BIOTECHNOLOGY - Preferred Method: Processing organic waste also comprises reducing the temperature of the mixture in the thermophilic dominant regime; passing sufficient ambient air through the mixture to maintain a temperature below 180 degrees F; locating the worm bed on a flow through digester bed; maintaining a sufficient O2 concentration within mixture to substantially maintain aerobic microbiological activity; maintaining a sufficient O2 concentration within mixture to substantially maintain preclude anaerobic microbiological activity in the mixture; forming the mixture into a configuration to enhance uniform flow through the mixture; forming the mixture into a configuration to substantially preclude preferential flow paths through the mixture; passing air through the worm bed; maintaining a moisture gradient between a bottom strata of the worm bed and a top strata of the worm bed; grinding the mixture to provide a mean particle size less than approximately 0.5 inches after aerobically conditioning the mixture through the thermophilic dominant regime to the mesophilic dominant regime; applying water to a top surface of the worm bed to maintain a moisture gradient from the top strata of the worm bed to a bottom strata of the worm bed; selectively passing an air stream through the composting mixture from the bottom of the mixture; applying a sufficient quantity of the feedstock to the worm bed to maintain a mesophilic dominant regime within the worm bed; drawing air through the worm bed includes thawing air up through the worm bed; maintaining a sufficient homogeneity within the mixture to substantially preclude preferential flow paths within the mixture; maintaining a sufficient homogeneity within the worm bed to substantially preclude preferential flow paths within the worm bed; maintaining a worm population within the worm bed of approximately 0.5-6.0 pounds of worms per square foot of worm bed surface area; applying sufficient feedstock to the worm bed to maintain a preexisting worm population within the worm bed; applying sufficient feedstock to the worm bed to increase the preexisting worm population within the worm bed; and applying sufficient feedstock to the worm bed to decrease the preexisting worm population within the worm bed. EXAMPLE - No example given.