It was in the dirt of his grandfather’s gardens that Michael Bradlee began his life’s work. He studied the rich brown stuff that made up the soft compost heaps. He sniffed at the finished material and poked at its sowbugs and worms.  In the lab at school, he placed crumbs of it under a microscope and watched microbes wriggle to life. He hounded his parents to get him a composting unit. They did, and from the age of ten, his fate was set. The dirt, the worms, the new backyard composter, and an eighth-grade epiphany would lead him to a life of science and pioneer composting.

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