Organic In The Garden – Profits To Be Made From Starting Your Own Worm Farm

Worm Farming is increasing in popularity around the world with many people realising not only the environmental benefits but also the nutrient value it has by providing worm castings for fertilising your garden.

For the backyard worm wormer you can start with a small commercially available system and move up from there. Worms breed relatively quickly under  the right circumstances. Poor breeding conditions can include extremes in Heat and Cold as well as heavy rain.

You can start a worm farm with as little as 1000 worms and grow stocks up from there. The more you start with will obviously increase your numbers quicker.

Worm Farming is an ideal income earner for small backyards due to small space required to set up, and very low input costs. It is actually very surprising the number of ways you can profit from worm farming. The following is a list of possible options for you to explore.

Vermicast
Vermicast is the waste product worms produce, which resembles small dark crumbles of sawdust. This is used as a soil conditioner or potting mix additive. Farmers have also used it as a conditioner over paddocks before planting crops as well as on pasture. Vermicast can be packaged and sold for domestic gardens. If you have a larger scale operation you could also sell to farmers and graziers.

Liquid Vermicast
Liquid Vermicast is used as a foliar spray and soil conditioner. It can be diluted and used on annual plants or as a tonic and conditioner for household plants. Concentrated solution can be bottled and sold or you can mix it ready to use and supply in a spray bottle. It’s usually best to prepare on demand or to order as it can go stagnate quickly and may lose potency.

Worm Capsules (worm eggs)
Worm eggs are often sought after to increase worm populations in gardens and farms. The more worms found in a soil, the healthier the soil is. Worm capsules are often the preferred choice due to their lightweight and ease of spreading.

Fishing Worms
Believe it or not worms are still amongst the most popular of all fishing Baits. Commercial fisherman can use them to encourage fish toward their nets and weekend family fishing trips often revolve around baiting hooks with worms. Fishing worms are usually kept longer and sold at a larger size. Some larger growers feed their worms high protein diets such as horse pellets to increase their weight and size for sale.

Worms
Of course the worms can be sold for composting as many backyard systems need restocking or new worm farmers starting out.

You can start selling at local farmers markets or through your local paper. As word spreads you will have people calling you through referrals as well as reselling to past customers.

July 27, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Worm Farming

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