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!

@brucea550

4 жыл бұрын

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 🙏🏼

Jim, this is such a great insight into what you have created for our earth. I like your philosophy and I am motivated to join in worm composting!

I only use compost tea weekly on my gardens and it’s never looked better. I include worm castings🤗

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.

@brucea550

4 жыл бұрын

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.

I am gonna start my own company and call it “I got worms!” I will hire Harry and Lloyd to run it!

I have worms at my house and continuing to try and expand and learn. Saved a couple of my wife’s plants with castings. She was rather impressed.

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.

@prefabrikbinayapimi5887

5 жыл бұрын

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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 wanted to see the garden!

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.

Awesome, my red wigglers makes a lot of vermi called black gold ... great video.. ✌️

Love his facility.

I need to fly to Cambodia and introduce the Khmer people to Vermicompost and Worm Farming.This is brilliant Jack !!

Thanks for sharing this interesting video. Could you share us about how to prepare feed and feed the worms.

Jack! Your my hero! Can I come visit? I live in Moraga, daughter went to Sonoma- now is a veterinary- she would love to come. Too!

@07negative56

5 жыл бұрын

They don’t do visitors too often. Go to his website. I think he has a calendar of events where you can then go to his farm.

I have had a small worm tower in my basement for 4 or 5 yrs. I would love to do it large scale like this.

Watched this video many times. Now I have a lot of worms bins. 😎

Hi. excellent video

Worm castings are added to soil in the hemp industry on a enormous scale. I use something like 1 part worm castings to 3 parts soil.

@ftnwo7829

3 жыл бұрын

So hemp/cannibus loves worm castings?

i knew a fisherman so good with worms, he was a master baiter

@Ponen77

4 жыл бұрын

Were you ever taken to his master baits room to show you how he handles his worm?

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?

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 ?

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?

Man that’s so cool… I want to do this.

The bohemian life is the only life for me!

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.

We don't need Mosanto or chemicals we need worms!!!

@prefabrikbinayapimi5887

5 жыл бұрын

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5 жыл бұрын

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@herbertlumsden3730

4 жыл бұрын

We have worms. If Monsanto and Bayer would stop KILLING THEM.

@iDelta77

4 жыл бұрын

Amen!

Do you give Tours? I’d love to come check your place out !

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?

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... 😝

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.

@brucea550

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like grubs, not slugs.

I really like the worm bed I wish I could get one

Can someone explain how the casting come out of the bottom? Thanks

Where do you collect the worm tea? Store it?

I'd love an update.

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

Imagine if every field and orchard was also a worm farm....

Very nice

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

Jack , what do you feed your worms. I have red wigglers in my garage. I have two containers with about 1000 worms total.

From where does he get all the organic material at first?

worms are just as important and honey bees

@padredelaverde

4 жыл бұрын

All bees. Mason bees pollinate ten times the amount that honey bees do. It's important to have that wide variety.

@nullnull2945

4 жыл бұрын

Depending on locale and native worm populations if they are existent. Worms are a problem for slow growing hard woods

Awesome!

thanks

Loved it

@allmaster4615

7 жыл бұрын

Dude it sucks

Sir, how do you stir the compost when you put it in a box?

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

we got this

Can I see how the beds are made or the internet link? Thanks

👍👍👍👍👍from Kazakhstan

cousin eddie had a worm farm - had to sell it when aunt edna ss checks stopped

Can I visit your farm? I'm super intrigued by this!

@elijahdixon4584

7 жыл бұрын

Brant T v

Just checked out this guys website and it seems like there has been no activity since 2013 ? I hope he is ok.

What is he feeding Dairy Solids? can someone explain?

Totally cool. Who'd a thunk it?

If you got a bunch and it gets really hot outside.....you gotta shade your worms lest they cook and smell bad

At 1:25, is that an aerated static compost pile?

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 ?

@prefabrikbinayapimi5887

5 жыл бұрын

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I think african night crawler is the best worm for vermicomposting

@ramelechaluse6772

5 жыл бұрын

Your correct sir

@carlosgarcia4129

5 жыл бұрын

Your crazy then can become pest easily the right type of worm is the red wiggler worm

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?

@markharris5544

5 жыл бұрын

That's correct. Worms eat the bacteria that are causing the material to rot.

@ICUP570

5 жыл бұрын

Nope they are very beneficial for plants

@matthewwolf3531

5 жыл бұрын

no not at all. I plant seed in a soil that has a ton of worm castings in it.

Yes

I'm building a 55 gal. barrel garden tower. Putting red wigglers in it.

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!

@prefabrikbinayapimi5887

5 жыл бұрын

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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

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think uncle Jim’s raises any worms. They just buy wholesale and sell retail.

@lisakukla459

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@brucea550

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@lisakukla459

4 жыл бұрын

@@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?

@brucea550

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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 .

@jimmccarley3191

5 жыл бұрын

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.

How cold does it get there?

Hey, was that a rocoto pepper in your green house?

What are the worms fed with?

Im a pilot and I’m interested in starting my own worm farm.

can you make worm bed out of treated wood ?

Hello, is there anyone who can provide me with a definitive identification of some worms that came on their own to my compost pile, thank you!

@2qlrn273

5 жыл бұрын

This web-page is made up of links to worm identification information: duckduckgo.com/?q=worm+identification&t=ffab&atb=v168-1&ia=web

I want to make a worm farm now😊

@shawnmcgowan3557

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you did

@GL.cats123

3 жыл бұрын

Me to

2000 pounds per week ?

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.

@kc.p.1162

5 жыл бұрын

Kiiru Njihia it’s about $4,500 +shipping

How bottom looks?

How would you get worms to live through (Canadian) Winter?

@balanced4harvest552

4 жыл бұрын

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!

how much does 1 liter of Vermicompost cost?

HI how big is your setup

Separated dairy solids? Is it cow poop?

I think I like worms more than people.

More worms. And more worms

Europe - "Red wiggler" is the Brandling worm

J.M. Director 🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷👍

Thanks to worms.

Where is this farm and can I visit

Damn I got lost on KZread again

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.

Good

Just a few cups

is there a website for this farm?

@ringsnroses7156

7 жыл бұрын

stephen macdonald cool and now I'm first to dislike your comment

@stephenmacdonald76

7 жыл бұрын

Rosie IsWeird I wish I had more hands to give your comment 4 thumbs down

@ringsnroses7156

7 жыл бұрын

stephen macdonald oh! Sorry this comment was made for someone else being rude not you sorry

@ringsnroses7156

7 жыл бұрын

stephen macdonald well now this is awkward, sorry

Hippies!

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

I like to make poop tea with it. Or mix it in with my compost tea.

Ahmed Ewes I am Ahmad from Egypt. I want to show in work to establish a farm to produce compost by worms and we have no experience in Egypt.

@kdegraa

5 жыл бұрын

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.

It's June 2nd, 2018. If this video was published 6-1-18, why are there comments from up to two years ago?

@muaadthallie8250

5 жыл бұрын

May 26, 2015

Do worms ear and break down palm tree or shredded pine and or palm

Hello sir. How to contact you??

J aimerais avoir la même chose que vous au Québec