Captain Matt's Worm Farm Tour 

“Be still, and know that I am God! even the worms know about that fact ... and they are quite silent" thank you Captain Matt

I have raised worms for probably 20 years, but I learned a few new tricks today. I keep my worms in stacked vertical tiers and the only difference is I don't have a Shaker table, but the worms seem to be happy. That's not to say I've ever seen one smile, but I just know somehow they are enjoying life. 🤣

This tour was amazing!! I teach people to worm farm using plastic totes or whatever they have on hand... but it's my life goal to have a worm farm this cool one day!! Thanks for the tour

Be still and know that I am God...love your sign! I am trying to start up a worm farm for homeschooling project with my 5 year old. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge😊

Very nice of you to let us inside and have a look at the set up.

I just started a very small little “farm” started with 60 worms in a 18 quart container with some organic soil and I’ve got some cricket dust food and some old orange peels and wet cardboard I’ve added. My intent is to have sustainable worms for fishing. I get so tired of running to Walmart all the time for them and spending $6 every time. So we shall see how it goes. I’d like to be able to use about 8-10 worms a week for fishing and keep that amount sustainable after a few months or so.

You had one job... We want to see the grate underneath!

When you turned on your shifter it reminded me of the same process used in grain combines, nicely done.

Very nice operation, thank you for taking us through the process. I have some worm bins, but I also have worms in my grow room in my plant pots. Works very well. I notice that after a while, the worms will process all the soil and it ends up being all worm castings. The plants begin to slow down when it is all worm castings. So I pull up the plants and shake them. All the castings just fall off, then I process out the worms and castings and start again. Works well making my own fertilizer : )

i was given a wormery 2 yearsago and used it and found the casting tea made my veg flowers herbs thrive like mad. i just recently cleaned it n the amount of castings i there was ridiculous. i spread it all over the garden. then I went on etsy n saw one litre bottles go for 20 quid. i think i used up 500 pounds worth on my own garden. lol

1 MILLION WORMS! How often do you do inventory? :) Love the video & tour!

Fascinating! This has sparked my interest, thank You!

Thank you Captain, the most jacked up worm operation I've seen so far. Good job, sir.

That was great! Thanks for teaching me something VERY cool today. Your down to earth approach and set up was inspiring.

I have a worm farm for fishing bait. Natural florida worms. They are very heat tolerant so no need for refrigeration. Just small time for personal use. I want to increase production for small sale of worms. I have a huge leaf pile that I also harvest worms from when I deplete my supply too much for my liking.

what an amazing tour....thoroughly enjoyed that

I enjoyed your podcast interview with Macky and the lads @highonhomegrown. So I thought I'd subscribe and come and say hi Captain👍

Thank you. Very interesting

Great video awrsome set up you have there.

Hello Captain Matt! I really liked this thought: "The compost of our failures is the fertilizer for our future success" All the best! Stefan

You know you're getting old when you're considering building a shop in your back yard to make worm shit

Thank you for sharing all of the steps of your operation. Do you have plans on how you made upon your sifter?

Black Gold, Texas Tea no wait that's oil.. Still Black Gold i always have bags of worm casting i have & compost to bring them above ground and will add some to certain huge pots i use. i'll be looking into the suppliers i've heard of uncle jimz

Great video captain

This was a phenomenal video. Out of curiosity, you said the bulk bin has a grate on the bottom. What type of grating material is it that the soil doesn’t fall through until you rake it? How often do you collect castings form the bulk bin? Are you adding more mulch to the top each time you collect castings from the bottom?

Thanks for the very entertaining and informative video.

Great video! I learned quite a bit from this small video maybe even something I can start fpr my home garden on a much smaller scale lol

good stuff but i wish you had shown what the cocoons and eggs look like.

This was very interesting Captain Matt. Thank you for the tour 🐛

I like this set up. It's hard to find 1/16th screens.

Epic.. thank you, im about to build a CFT bin again, its been a while, I kinda forgot a lot but you condensed everything in. Short video, very well covered

I live in eastern Kansas on a little bit of acreage and I got worms that I thought they were snakes at first, at night time the ground looks alive if your walking with a flashlight.

Great video

Why don't u have more than 3 or 4 bulk bins instead of small countries, I think this would be easy to breed, I am just curious, I am learning from you, hope u have a wonderful day

Great tour and explanations of your worm farm Captain Matt!! That CFT had sooooo many worms and the sifter really did a great job of harvesting some fine castings!! Awesome video!! I look forward to watching more videos!!🪱🪱🪱

Captain Matt....YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! love Love LOVED the tour!!!!! You are cool--I just know that we would have been great friends if only we had met in our lifetimes LOL .

Thank you so much for sharing. You have a great worm operation going on.

Thank you, can I visit your store and teach me how to take care worms. Thank you. Tito from New York

Just subscribed from Newfoundland, Canada 🇨🇦. I dabbled in vermicomposting a couple years back. I'm going to get a small worm farm going for myself. I was just searching and found your channel.

Great tour, Matt! I love seeing all of your ingenuity!

You're really down to earth.. Thanks for sharing and big thanks for biodegradeable packaging!

Very nice and orginised job sir

Very educational. Thanks for the video😊

Would love to see a video on building the worm sifter. Great video, thanks.

Thank you Matt for sharing your passion of worm farming🙏 Would it be possible to see a picture of underneath your big with bin - to get an idea of what you're scraping at? Are there slats that you're pulling between? 🤔💁

im thinking im alot like you something to do after 65 im getting ready to retire and i watch a lot of worm videos but once i seen you and i have the same ideas but like to know if i could buy 10 lbs of worms from you becaz you have the best looking worms here on youtube

So cool!

Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Where do you purchase your bags for retail sales?

Thanks for the video mate, do you have many problems with weeds in the castings by using horse compost? How do you get around this?

Awesome tour Cpt. Matt!! Hey quick question: what position would you say is most used during the worm breeding?

awesome video with so much information thank you so much! What type of sifter do you have ?

How often they double

Captain Matt, could you decrease the angle of your sifter, so the table shifts slower and more completely?

Is that redguard on the exterior of the master bulk bin?

Hello sir thank you for the tour, where would one might get a shifter like that , Thank you.

I'm new to the idea of worm compost as I have a farm with a manure pile I'd like to compost. Great info thx

Appreciate your info. Shane sharing your knowledge on social media will kill your business because people are already copying you like it was their idea

I thoroughly enjoy your videos! my question is: Can I use Black Kow compost, which I can get down here in Texas, for worm bedding until my homemade compost is ready? Thanks

thank you for sharing your videio where did you get the shifter from?

Hi Captain Matt, I'm a subscriber to your site, if I understand well, as per your big red bin, the way you have builded it, you have saved all the reciprocating system, so without the motor, the pully, and the cables, less working parts, so less possibility that it jams, so you are doing it manually when ever you need castings. What is the space between each metal cross bar? with the great quantity of worms that you are producing don't you feel to sell any worms which is more profitable then only casting. Thanks for your advise, Philippe

Which worm would be better for making worm castings? Red wrigglers, European night crawlers, African night crawlers or Canadian night crawlers?

Imagine a world where your biodegradable bottle is really worm food.

Love the sifter and it does work a treat however I would find my castings to be too moist to really go through it as yours looks a lot drier. I recently had to manually do mine separating them and just relying on the sun. Did you build that sifter yourself?

I have watched all of your videos. In the video where you were setting up the CFT you said the worms stop breeding at some point and then you go to your breeding bins. Could you either explain this or point me in the direction to read about this. Why would the stop breeding. And what is significant about the breeding bins. Thanks Sandie

hi Captain Matt! I have been thinking of my own worm farm for profit for over a year now. Could you make a video on the way you sell your castings , the production, bagging and shipping. Or is that too forward of me. If you have another suggestion I would like to hear it. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. I do like what you feed them and going to emulate you.

What kind of motor do u use in the sepearator that separates the cocoons castings and worms. Very neat set up I'm a small scale worm farmer that just has a half dozen bins and a few half barrels of compost worms, I use the castings in my own gardens and I sometimes will sell a scattered pound of worms to someone. It's a fun hobby to supply my own needs and to make a few extra dollars from time to time.

I was worried that the Canadian Nightcrawlers in my worm terrarium might get overcrowded as I cannot make a second enclosure for them. I'm glad that they will naturally control their own population.

Im curious how many of those bags of castings you bag each month? Does it get slower in the winter?

Never seem a million worms on my shovel ,but there again they are not forcec fed and restricted to a box .Happy worms are free .not stressed

What do you feed them for chow? Do you ever add dry organic nutrients or minerals like basalt? Last question would spent brewery malted barley grains be safe as chow?

This was a great video, Captain! I always run out of worms for my chickens, so your breeder bins idea caught my attention. Will you be making a vid on the composition of those optimal conditions? or do you use the same bedding mix you use with your continuous flow device? No extra food other than what the manure and hay and leaves provide? How moist would you say?

Hello, where do you get the worm sifter that separates the worms and eggs from the castings?

how do get the little babies off the lids,

Nice setup. What kind of worms do you have?

what are you feeding to your breeding buckets?

May I use worms I dig up around the creek? Or must I buy worms? Thank you 💚🌱🌿🌶

Have any pdf book related to their rearing.

Hi, thanks for the video, what is the recommended size of the screen hole, for capturing the cocoon?

What is the rake your using? We are building our bin now, and want to make sure we have the right size of rake .

Great video sir, any chance you could show us the grate you used under the Big Bin that you were raking off of. And the worms do not crawl out of that ?

How do you know if the aged horse manure doesn't have persistent pesticides from the hay the horse has eaten?

I also see that you have a couple really bright lights over some of the breeding bins (pails). What would the purpose of that be?

What is the shelf life of your compost after packing given that the microbes need aerobic condition?

I've just found your channel and lp ing your videos! Question. I noticed the material you poured out of the buckets is not wet at all. How do you get it like that? I always have liquid coming out the bottom of my farm

where do you get the black bins

How do you keep the compost from falling out the bottom all the time?

if castings dry out after you separate, are they still any good to use in the garden or lawn. If they aren't is there anyway to recharge like adding biochar or something similar. Very novice and just getting started so need all the help I can get. Also, I live in the north were things get pretty cold so if casting freeze does that kill the good stuff? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you insulate the bulk bin? How lond that wood last? Here in hawaii is so hot at times, Im wondering if insulation would help, but tring to figure how they would not eat it

What do you do with the cocoons exactly? Put them in the big bin?

Hi Captain Matt, just watched your video (which was great, BTW) and you mentioned that the plans for your sifter were here, but i cant find them. we want to build one for our friend who raises worms. Could you please point me to them?

Where did you get your sifter machine?

I'm watching your channel with great interest 👍 You are a great speaker and I hope you do promotion for Vermiculture. If we could get more people interested in aiming towards organic. Thanks for sharing 👍

I love your sign - Be still and know that I am God -

What kind of black cover do you use to cover worm bin

Are any fertilizers deadly for worms? In the worm I often pour my vermicompost extract (rain water and worm dirt particulate ) on my potato beds, at the end of the season I find a tons of worms in the potato beds. I was planning on using a 5-10-5 from Espoma call Garden Food.

Hey Captain Matt! Thanks for the awesome video! Do you typically sell out of all of your castings? I live in Canada and am curious about the return on investment for a big worm bin. I currently use tote bins and mostly produce just for my own gardens, but am considering expanding .

where is your worm farm located?

If I was you I would’ve just said 1 million worms I wouldn’t even said 1,000,042 just for fun

What is your brand name if I wish to purchase the products. Are they sold in Florida?

What is the bottom of the worm been look like