Vermicast production through conversion of biodegradable organic matter

An apparatus comprising in combination, an organic feedstock-to-vermicastings vermiculture converter with a vermiculture sequestering vessel including an upper opening for passing unconverted feedstock into a vessel-defined interior between mutually opposed pairs of interior vessel walls each having a generally vertical orientation to provide a corresponding gravity-fed passage through said interior between said upper opening and a lower distally spaced apart, converted feedstock outlet from said interior, and further defining in mutually superposed relation:

• an upper, mixed epigeic vermiculture bed enclosure portion of said interior proximal to said upper opening into said interior and adapted for receiving unconverted feedstock from said upper opening and holding received unconverted feedstock for vermiculture conversion thereof in association with an epigeic mixer operably located in between said vessel walls and within said mixed epigeic vermiculture bed enclosure portion of said interior to provide epigeic mixing of unconverted feedstock during vermiculture conversion thereof;
• and,
• a lower converted feedstock bed enclosure mixer-less portion of said interior, defined at least in part between mutually opposed portions of said interior walls having downwardly inwardly convergent wall portions defining an unmixed converted feedstock passage constraint therebetween and thereby being operable in cooperation with said outlet to constrain passage of said converted feedstock through said lower converted feedstock bed enclosure portion while supporting unconverted feedstock within said upper, mixed sequestered epigeic vermiculture bed enclosure portion.