Composting kitchen waste by feeding it to worms is an excellent resource development technique. Not only can a home deal with some of its heaviest, potentially smelliest discards, it feeds worms that produce worm castings which are wonderful soil amendments for veggies and flowers. A composting worm or red worm or eisenia fetida eats half its body weight every day and a worm bin can support over 15 pounds of worms (1000 worms = one pound). For a wealth of worm information check out Mary Applehoff's wormsite, www.worm woman.com.
She also wrote the great book Worms Eat My Garbage.