I love your story Jack, I am nearly 70 and I only recently started to grow vegetables throughout my back yard and now I also started my worm farm so now I am waking up after a heavy blow when my darling wife passed away in 2016 in my arms and I had lost all motivation. At least now I am beginning to wake up and focusing on my new venture, thanks to you kind of people that made me see some light ahead. Bless you all and thank you.
Worm story.... My father years ago thought it would be neat to raise worms for sale. He bought thousands and thousands to start a farm. They were stored in these wooden boxes about 20"x20"x12"and we had a garage filled from floor to ceiling with worms! He had been warned that they needed to stay moist most of the time but for whatever reason he neglected to do so. Well, one evening every single one of those worms migrated out of their boxes and into our yard! I can still see his expression of disbelief to this day! My mother's garden loved the addition! Ha!
When I was about 12 I got the idea from organic gardening magazine and was gonna get rich growing them in the basement. Well, same thing, they migrated all over the basement and my mother was ready to kill me!
This man deserves award ! He loves doing something good for people, he’s thinking about better healthy food by raising worms really hard workGod bless him 🙏🏼
I met a Chap in Vermont but outta Maine I believe that raised night crawler type worms for the Bait Industry, he told me that he sold on average 7 to 8 million dozen per year.He said secret was raising them in expended coffee grounds,which were quite easy to procure. I asked him how he marketed them at this point he clamed up,He was quite an elderly chap at time about 20 years ago and he Was about 70 then , appeared quite satisfied with his operation.
8 million dozen would be over 50 TONS. I think he was stretching things a bit. Did you actually see his operation? The coffee grounds part is true, although shredded wet leaves are about the best.
Studying this subject matter hands on. It amazes me how quickly these worms attract everything around them near my compost pile. My compost pile with the worms works three times as fast now.
So it was just getting going, and I thought I was going to hear a story how about how this guy had a worm farm, and everything about it, and then it ended, are you sure the editors didn't accidentally cut off the story ?
Watched it again . .. it’s the vermicompost that’s added to the new planting. The worms have been sifted out. Your worms are your workers! What you sell, then as an end product, is the compost. You can’t sell ALL your worms and stay in business! The aerial shot of your layout was great. It looked so neat . . . so well laid out. The garden beyond looked wonderful.
I’m impressed! You take a handful of worms and their castings or the castings alone and put it in with each new planting? Your worm farm is so neat. Don’t you have to cover the worm bins and keep them dark for the worms?
I'm from India🇮🇳and from past few year we are making our dependency totally on chemical fertilisers and i see many harmful changes in my country in minimum time, so we are fast moving towards natural farming over 5 6 year and in this scenario, we changed the environment towards natural farming very fast
Is that Uncle Jim's?? He kinda looks like the drawing in their logo. I really like that company, and I really like this place, too. Very clean and organized. Seems like an ethical farmer, given that he's letting cameras inside. I love that. If I knew the company name, I'd like to support them.
@@brucea550 *Really??* 🤔 Do you recall where you heard this? I'd like to get more info, as I'm planning to implement a fairly big worm and bsfl program on a Permaculture market garden in the spring. If that's the case, I'll likely select another source. Something about that doesn't sit right with me. Hm. Thanks for the heads-up.
Most internet sellers are resellers. There is a place called Delta worms in Cali that does not sell any but their own. Jim’s has hundreds of suppliers, thus, people notice orders from them are drop shipped.
@@brucea550 Interesting tidbit. I'll have to take it with a grain of salt, though, since you've declined to offer any sources. Are you perhaps affiliated with Delta in any way?
Not sure what sources I can give, just personal experience and what others have told me. I have no connection to Delta except they were recommended and when I checked them out they are the only place that would promise they raised everything they sell. You can call and ask any supplier where their worms come from, they do enough business to not care your opinion so they aren’t going to lie. Not saying the worms you get from uncle Jim’s will be inferior, but if they are drop shipping from other suppliers they have less quality control. The internet has made it easier and more profitable for companies to switch from production to just handling orders.
Need to watch out for carnivorous slugs though. So many times I had a matured compost bin; ie, composted and had turned into a worm bin that was teeming with earthworms. And then suddenly, red worms all gone. Replaced by slugs with tiger like markings. So, regular monitoring is crucial. Or better, harvest the worms and put them into specialised, protected trays to prevent total wipe outs.
To quote Dune, Bless the maker and his water Bless his coming and his going May his passage cleanse the world May he keep the world for his people Seems appropriate... 😝
Really SONOMA VALLEY ?...I've been buying worms from PA....I Live in Solano county..I would love to tour your farm do you have tours...how about a web site ...Do you sell to the public ?.....do you breed just red wigglers...or night crawlers too ?
Such an awesome video, well done it got my sub. I’ve just started experimenting with worms on our farm- I built one a stackable worm farm) the other day which is on my channel, and I must say I love my worms. It’s so interesting to learn and watch how they work the soil. Good soil-good food and we can’t take for granted what worms do for our ecosystem. Keep up the great work.
I'm in for just 40 seconds and the guy already made me laugh. "Shut it down for a minute, I'm on TV!" [hand gesturing a box] Hahaha. Next shot is of him making fun at the drone while they're trying to record a glorious top down view. lol
Hi Jack, I live in South Carolina and wish to get into worm farming on a small scale. My wife's family have a tree farm of 180 acres an I'd like to place a few worm making boxes there as well as on our property. Can you give me any suggestions? regards Doug
Great video. At 1:50 are those small white things in the soil clump mites? If so do the mites cause any problems? They pop up in my bins occasionally if I throw pieces of melons or bananas. Just curious if they are a problem in outside bins as well.
Thanks you for your video, could you help me answer a question? Have you faced any worms (Ex: Hammerhead Worm- Bipalium kewense) harming for earthworms?
How are those worm-containers designed? I wonder what kind of mechanism drives the finished compost to fall on the ground? He said smt. about knives? Does anyone know?
Is it good for worms to be added to your garden and fruit trees in early stages and afterwards? I get they add this good stuff but does it take any thing away at seed level or young roots?
Cool I live in Kern county I have a lot of land I been farming turkeys and chickens I need to grow there food before I go broke thanks for your knowledge save me cash and never know make a few bucks .
Not to be a know it all but you need to check with your county agent if your planning on feeding the chickens earthworms on a large scale. A few wont hurt them but dont feed them a lot of worms without checking with your county agent. He can explain why.
Hello there. I am from Uzbekistan and I have just started my work in this field. Is there a channel for this farm in order to get acquainted with very lucrative business innovations? If the writers.
nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable of all to use a highfalootin phrase luxuries that is or to wit farming and be it needlessly added my Uncle Sol’s farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm) ----------------------------------------- - e.e.cummings
Hi, your video is inspiring kindly assist me with information how much will it cost me to purchase a commercial flow through worm bin like the one you are using in your farm to breed the worms. Also the freight charges to the port of Mombasa Kenya.
Hi just wondering one question to have a farm like that what kind of climate is better where im from naturally there is normal earth worms and Night crawlers but are winters are wicked sometimes!
Q. C. Phil, I was wondering the same thing, because the Dew worms I put into my Compost Bins don't seem to survive the Winter! Although because his Worm Trays are under a roof, the soil would be on the dry side, so less prone to freezing! Although -35* C rules!
Ahmed Ewes start small Ahmed. Find some containers for the worms, get some worms, feed the works whatever vegetable or organic matter you can get your hands on. Then experiment & document what happens.