WORM FARM
Today We Made a Worm Farm
My Husband Spent 30$ and I made us a Worm Farm !! So excited. So the Worm Farm Industry is a quiet industry. Its mostly small mom and pop chains in the area, but what do people do when they cant find any in stores? They try to find people who have worm farms & in my area there are not very many.. So I started mine today.
We got 2 small black and yellow Rubbermaid containers. In one container I drilled 12 holes along the bottom and six holes on each long side then I place it inside the Second Container. Then inside the first container I put a hardy layer of a good soil mix, coffee grounds, a single cut up strawberry, 1 cut up paper towel roll, 1 damp paper towel, then placed our 36 night crawlers in , with a light layer of the same soil to lightly coat the top. This Second Container will catch the "Worm Juice", this is Worm Castings; Worm Casting is Gold in the fertilizer world.
In the pictures below you can see the holes that were made along the sides and cover/bottom ( Just cant see that part) Plus the fresh compost I added for when they're ready to start eating.
Worm farms can generate anywhere from $15,000 to $150,000 for well managed worm farms. Now, I don't think I'll make $150,000 but the worms will pay for themselves in various ways. The compost they generate will make our garden flourish, selling nightcrawlers to fisherman, help move our compost along quicker.
The worms we got today were very pale and impish ,assuming because they were in the fridge at Walmart, but once we broke up the clusters and let them move freely they started to get their darker color back. They are very hardy in size so once they get back to full movement and health to reproduce we will continue to have a hardy line of worms to work with.
This is just a start for the Freedom Farmstead Worm Farm, I would like to get some red wigglers, than our farm would be complete and keeping them both healthy and reproducing for us.
When Worms are ready to reproduce at about 50-90 days old they will develop this bulbous gland, that you probably seen and not ever noticed its about half way down looks like the middle of the body. Now when they are mature enough to reproduce they will mate every 7-10 days , the mating process takes 24 hours and is way too gross for me to want to watch or describe. Some of our worms have this gland already, meaning THEY ARE READYYYY.
So I made a bet with my husband to check the count in 2 weeks and see how many we have and adjust the size of our container if needed.
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