Worm Farm?

[ScottAR]

Saw the same show... Dirty jobs? I think it was. Neat stuff. They put pieces of bread on the worm beds also and the worms loved it.

Same show had septic pumpers and golf ball collectors as well. Discovery Channel?

 

[Taylortractornut]

Mark got to the dump and get an old freezer and fill with top soil, and manure rabbit manure works best. be fore loading punch several holes about 1/2 inch diameter to drain them. You can also leave the top on but let it have air holes to. I had a few of them and you could paint them and make them lok not so bad. They till the soil up pretty good. I had a friend with a restaurant and he'd drop his salad bar left overs off once a week.
Over the year I accumulated too many old implements to have room for the worm farm si I gave my friend the entire set up. With the excption that when i fish at his pond i can borrow a few.

 

[EastTexFrank]

If you do an internet search, there are plenty of sites about worm farming and building worm beds. I built 2 for about $50 dollars each and they work great. I built them for the same reason a you, to have fishing worms. Actually my mother-in-law aked me to, she's an 85 year old fishing fanatic. I bought "seed stock" on the interent and the little devils have multiplied out of control. You can feed them anything - shredded paper, coffee grounds, egg shells and vegetable peelings and they will thrive if you keep them damp and dark. It's kinda fun to go out to the pole barn, scoop up a canful of worms and go try to teach them to swim on the end of a hook.

 

[jlbota]

Yup it was "Dirty jobs" I do recall seeing the one with the septic tank cleaners. "The honey wagon" LOL That was a really nasty job.

I think another one I saw that made me laugh was the guy who had an industrial vaccum truck and he would use it to catch gophers. He would just stick the hose in the gopher hole and it would suck them into his truck. Pretty funny to see those things flying into his truck. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MarkV]

It is good to hear that several of you have tried worm beds with success. I believe we will give it a try. Looks like a good way to use some kitchen leftovers, create some good stuff for the garden and the wife will be happy catching fish for dinner. I'll also be happy eating fish for dinner.

Taylortractornut, one of the Internet sites I looked at describe the exact set up you used with an old frig.

EastTexFrank, I was wondering how large of beds you made and if you would use the same size again? How about a short description of what you built and how much stock you started with. I love the fact that your mother-in-law at 85 is out there fishing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks for the info everyone.

MarkV

 

[Currmudgeon]

Some 30 years ago there was a mini-craze in worm farming. It was some sort of get-rich quick scheme, so of course my buddy went into worm farming. He put in some large (20 x 40 foot?) concrete beds with manure and seeder worms. Hybrid Redworms they were. 90% protein. The Chinese were supposed to buy them by the boatload, because they're all hungry over there. Well, the Chinese never read the book, and the orders never came in.

In the end his worm beds got flooded in a rainstorm and he went belly up. Again.

A bit of worm trivia. The largest worm farmer in the US is former President Jimmy Carter. He raises them on waste from his peanut operation. You'll still see his ads in Popular Science (or they were there when I last looked) Carter Farms, Plains GA.

 

[ScottAR]

I caught the honey wagon instantly as there used to be a septic truck around that had bees painted all over it. When I was little, I used to wonder why there were bees all over a septic truck. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[thcri]

About ten years ago we did the heating in a house that had a septic tank with 4 individual stages to it. This tank was in the basement of the house not outside. If I remember right there was worms filled in two of the four stages. The design come out of Canada. The drain field ended up being very small and the tank was never to be pumped. The worms would eat, multiply and die. This system is still in the testing stages.

I should look out on the internet and see if I could find more information on it.

murph

 

[JLD]

I've got a worm drum. Its 15 gallons, I tip it to the side throw in food waste and tip it back to cover the food. It does not process all of my scraps (have a compost bin for the rest), but it lets me keep worms around all the time. Every once in a while it starts to contain to much moisture and I need to pour it off. I don't want to drill holes in the drum cause I don't want the liquids draining in the location that I keep the drum. Seems to work for me.

 

[slowzuki]

I remember seeing something similar by a guy in New York. His used a 4 stage swamp and loam thing to treat the liquids and solids. The worms kept stuff porous so air could circulate. The water coming out the end was potable!

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I should look out on the internet and see if I could find more information on it.

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