Carnivorous compost

I vermicompost in my basement -- all our banana and vegetable peels, coffee grounds, tea bags, napkins, and n00b rejected food is fed to the red wigglers. Given that our household has one academic, one professional with a crazy work schedule, and one toddler who (inexplicably!) can't sleep on a regular schedule, we have the Most Caffeinated Worms in the Midwest.

Every week or so we take out some dirt and dump it on our postage-stamp yard, or in the pots on the roof. We grow kick-a** tomatoes and everything blooms beautifully, which is the only reason The Spouse puts up with all this.

We don't feed them meat. I don't because it would make the compost smelly. The Spouse won't allow it because of the fear that the worms could develop "a taste for human flesh" and turn on their former masters.

Turns out, that's not as crazy as it sounds.