a question for gardeners

[KarenN]

Be careful, Chris.... Ted and I started doing that about 10 years ago - it grew into a huge vermicomposting business with fabric greenhouses and outdoor trenches that were 1/8 mile long full of worms!!!! We had a huge worm harvester, could harvest about 2 tons of vermicompost and several pounds of worms in a little over an hour. We sold both the cleaned compost and the worms.... And they actually DO make pretty good worm bait, those red wrigglers can get pretty big given enough space!

A few years ago, we were made an offer on our business, lock, stock and barrel - we were pretty tired of it at that point and sold out - used the money to build that one big barn, and the other one in the back!

[Chrisnstar]

Ok, questino for you. I've considered selling the worms as i have plenty, but how do you package them to ship so they arrive alive?

How do you separate the worms from the vermicompost. Do you have a screen or something?

chris

[KarenN]

We had something called a Cyclone harvester that separated the worms and graded them by size. It was a pretty expensive piece of equipment, but we started out with screens and then picking the worms out. You want enough compost around the worms for them to survive. We packed them in muslin bags, then in styrofoam shipping containers with arir vents and shipped them overnight.

[Chrisnstar]

thanks Karen!

chris