This post brings back memories...

My neighbor growning up had a major compost pile separate in threee section... the one with the most worms always had the egg shells, coffee grounds and table scrapes... One scoop of the pitch fork produced hundreds of worms..

When I got a little older, my friends and I tried the battery operated method- jury-rigged jumper cables with steel rods hooked up to my dad's truck battery. Man did those N'crawlers shoot out of the ground!