Who Benefits From Worm Farming?
Article by Owen Jones
Why on Earth would anyone want to 'grow worms' or have pets of worms? It is a decent question. After all, you are not able to take them for a walk and they will almost certainly never recognize you, because they are blind. However, there are decent reasons for establishing a worm farm.
Gardeners know that earthworms are good for the soil. They also know that red worms will break down vegetable material in the compost heap. Anglers know that worms make decent bait for freshwater fish and teachers will attest to the fact that kids like to observe a small household worm farm.
Environmentalists will also tell you that the worm population is in decline in some areas because of the excessive use of insecticides and other pollutants such as acid rain.
Therefore, if you want more than one or two worms to put in a glass case for children to observe, the best place to buy them is from a farm. And there is lots of money in it too.
Of course, I am talking about two sorts of farms here. There is the small worm farm glass box, like an ant farm, used for educational purposes in the sphere of natural science and the large-scale, industrial farms intended to provide worms to industries and stores.
Who would spend money on a worm farm and why? Well, schools, parents and small zoos might do so for educational purposes. After all, it does not cost very much to feed worms with a couple of dead leaves and they are not violent. Health and safety is not an expression that relates to a table-top glass worm farm.
Industrial size worm farms do not have to be that big. You could have one in the back garden and produce millions of worms to sell. You could sell them to gardeners who have deprived soil; to fishing bait stores; to a zoo for food and to apartment-owners with window boxes.
Substantial zoos almost certainly already have their own worm farms to feed to lizards, snakes, birds and some mammals, but they would be happy to know where there is a back-up supply should all their worms die for some reason or other.
Someone who keeps birds, reptiles or amphibians would also benefit from a small farm. It is so much easier and cheaper to 'grow your own' than have to buy them from a pet shop, which almost certainly also has its own worm farm.
Farmers who keep chickens would also benefit from a worm farm, because the chickens can get fed on organically fed worms and a nearby supply would stop the chickens from wandering far from home, which means a better harvest of eggs for the farmer.
When you are able to see the benefits of worm farming, you could lift your horizon from the modest earthworm and think of cultivating special worms like the red ones in the compost container or the ones that foreign birds and reptiles like. The more specialist you are, the more you can charge.
Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on a number of topics, but is at present involved with how to get rid of pests. If you would like to know more, visit our website at Bugs Infestation.
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