Welcome to The Worm Farm!
We
raise and sell
Earthworms and Earthworm Products: We have
Redworms for
sale, plus Worm Castings, Compost, European Night Crawlers -
Fishing Worms - Worm Bins and kits - and more!
Here at The Worm Farm, just 7 miles south
of Chico in California’s
Durham farming
community, we’re hooked on worms.
We've found that
worm farming,
or vermiculture, is an excellent way to do some good for ourselves and for the
planet.
One of the amazing benefits of raising
composting worms, you see, is their utility as virtual organic garbage
disposals:
Redworms actually consume all sorts of kitchen scraps and organic
compounds like shredded paper and cloth, manure – feed them bits of banana
peels, watermelon rinds, blue jean rags, manure (just about anything organic
except meat, dairy, and oily substances), and you end up with organic,
odorless, castings that will transform fruits, vegetables, and flowers. In
some parts of the world, like the
Philippines,
China
, and elsewhere
including parts of the
U.S.
, communities are using
composting worms to help reduce waste and grow healthier plants and gardens.
We grow composting red worms (Eisenia
Fetida) and
European nightcrawlers (Eisenia Hortensis) in “windrows” - outside for
spring, summer, and fall harvesting, and in barns for harvesting in the
winter. With our mild Northern California
climate and our covered growing areas, we have earthworms -
nightcrawlers, red
worms and fishing worms- available year round.
Find out how fun and easy it can be to
raise your own earthworms, straight from our farm. Buy our compost worms and
ready-to-use worm bins for your own source of composting, for a true natural
wonder-drug for your garden or crops.
Why
Worm Farming? You’d
be amazed…
The worms and worm-products we cultivate and sell, for
the benefit of farmers, landscapers and homeowners (and us!) give back to
the soil and the environment as a whole, and we believe in giving back too:
we support local schools, and youth groups like the Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts by offering free tours of our Worm Farm operations, where we can show and
teach the positive impact that worms have in a sound ecosystem.
How Do Worms “Give Back”?
Worm waste takes the form of pinhead-sized “castings”
that work to loosen the soil and helps it retain moisture. Even 5% by volume
(10 to 20% is considered ideal) will do wonders to repel diseases and parasitic
insects, plus stimulating all aspects of plant growth – from seeds to
rooting and fruition.
The
Worm Farm is a family-owned enterprise. We started raising worms after getting sold on
the virtues and benefits available from the humble worm and worm castings – and found it much
preferable to the poultry farming we used to do. We got into worm
faming – vermiculture is a fancy word for it – kind of randomly, by an
impulse phone call to a number we saw on a billboard. The more we learned
about it, the better it seemed.
The more you know, the more you'll benefit.
Why wait? There's a worm with your name on it somewhere in there...
We ship throughout the US via Priority
Mail.
Order before Monday, and receive your worms by the weekend!
We ship bulk orders throughout Canada as a
Verified Shipper with multiple airlines. Call for an estimate on large
orders at 530-894-1276, or
order online.
(PLEASE NOTE: Web-site pricing is for
U.S.
shipments.)
