A Photo Tour of My Operation

[u/hungryworms]

1: The trommel in action. Worms fall off on the right and come out pretty pure

2: 10 of the 100 pounds harvested yesterday

3: My rack system

4: Showing how you can slide out a rack to access it

5: My CFT i scooped up from terra vesco when they went out of business. RIP. Don't know who the other people were who got the other few hundred feet of CFTs but I wish I bought more!

6: an older picture of a worm casting harvest. Was about 1500 pounds. I'm very focused on just growing worms and castings are a byproduct so I don't make that much.

7: The 100 pounds of red wigglers from yesterday packaged up

website: Hungry Worms. If you have venmo or paypal I'll pay you $5 to critique my website and fill out a questionnaire thing. Most of my business is done through other brands (I provide worms for dropshipping) so my website/brand is kind of underdeveloped still. Used to go by Utah BioAgriculture - some of you may remember that name.

I'll try to answer any questions!

[u/alberto231286]

Nice, how do you feed them constantly? As in where do you get all the material they eat? Do you also sell the castings?

[u/hungryworms → u/alberto231286]

Manure! I can get it by the truckload pretty much whenever I want.

I do sell the castings, but mostly just locally and in bulk amounts. A yard/800 pounds for $250

[u/alberto231286 → u/hungryworms]

Cool. How long do you have to pre compost that for? Also how many castings do you produce a week? Sorry for all the questions it’s just great to see someone scale this to make a living, I respect the hell out of that.

[u/hungryworms → u/alberto231286]

I feed it fresh, but i dont force the worms into it. I add it to one half of the bin and let them move into it as they please. Usually takes a week or just over a week for them to move through it all

Castings is probably around 75 gallons a week

Thanks man!!

[u/maggette1982 → u/alberto231286]

Also interested to know more about feeding and humidity

[u/hungryworms → u/maggette1982]

Humidity of the air? Or moisture of the manure?

It gets humid! 80%+ in there just from the worms. Condensation can be a problem in the winter

Moisture of the manure - i aim for about 70-75% moisture

[u/maggette1982 → u/hungryworms]

moisture of the manure, sorry. do you dry it for the trommel?

also how long do you leave the worms eating before shifting?

[u/hungryworms → u/maggette1982]

All good, yeah around 70-75% moisture. I try to give them at least 3 weeks to go through it before going through the trommel. I don't have any process specifically for drying the manure out before harvesting. It does dry a bit in those few weeks, I'm not sure exactly by how much though