Worm Farm Composting

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Hello! My name is Hope, and I have come here to teach you about one of my passive incomes, worm composting. By farming worms, I not only am able to make a few spare dollars but also my own personal garden flourishes, so I am able to save money on food every year. Not to mention I save myself a stinky trash space by composting my cooking scraps. The pros are way worth the cons... and really the only con is that the fertilizer is smelly and worms can be a little icky.

If you are someone who can stand the little wriggly monsters, and you haven't tapped into how much of a solid resource these guys are, then pay attention. I'm going to explain how you can literally earn money off having pet worms. Now, keep in mind, I'm not saying you can replace your income and quit your job with a worm farm - but if you put enough capital and time into it, it certainly can become a profitable and even pretty lucrative side business that can become a somewhat passive income.

Passive income, by the way, is what I classify as 'money you have to do minimal work for.' Take Vocal for instance. Once you have put the time and effort into creating original content (such as why having pet worms isn't disgusting, but actually profitable), and it's been approved, that article until deleted is there to earn you a penny for every person that the vocal AI system thinks actually read your story. For the rest of it's life. Worms require a little more effort than writing articles, but at the end of the day, it's worth it.

Worm farms come in all different shapes and sizes. You can make them out of totes, or get layered farms with spouts to be able to easily harvest the liquid. There are different styles of worm farms, for every kind of worm lover out there. The important thing to remember is, for easy harvesting and collecting, and protection of your worms, make sure your worm farm, whether you do it DIY style or you simply purchase your composting farm is that it's made out of durable non-toxic plastic. You don't want something that is biodegradable or something ingestible for the worms.

So, here are all the reasons why having pet worms is financially profitable - for anyone and everyone.

Save stink and space.

Trash is stinky. Smelly. Ick. When you put food in the trash, it gets even stinkier. Some of us have to take our own trash to the dump and the dump is not open every day. Therefore, having a worm farm, whether it be indoor or outdoor can save the hassle of having a huge mess of scraps when you cook, and some leftover foods can even be put in there basically anything but meat, and dairy, and you shouldn't put acidic items either like pineapple or peppers. You can even put paper, eggshells, and cardboard in there - and they will compose this, and use it to lay their eggs.

If you have an outdoor worm farm, and you have dogs, you can put your dog's poop in there too (worms LOVE poop). This will create a sanitary space for your family, and feed your worms.

Make your garden flourish.

My veggie garden produced a lot this year. I went small with my chaotic gardening approach this year, as I started a new gardening project that involves tire gardens. But using my fertilizer, I got way more than I bargained for with my lettuce, potatoes, and peppers this year.

I also gave out some samples to people, and they said it worked fantastic for their flower gardens. I've taken some to a friend who lives in California and grows marijuana and they said their harvest was amazing and lush, and they had never grown a plant that had more THC crystals before.

It works better than Miraclegro, and it's all-natural and organic. For those that purchase liquid worm castings for their gardens, they know that it may seem pricey, but when you dilute it down properly a little goes a very long way! In fact, if you do use liquid worm castings, just know that if you purchase concentrate or pure worm-cast tea, you must dilute it, or you will burn up your plants.

Versatile, and can be indoors or outdoors!

Worm farms are easy to take care of once you know how. At first, it seems like a lot of information, but once you remember the details it's actually very easy to take care of. It just consists of checking the PH Balance of your farm and the temperature every other day or so if you have an outbreak of pests or mold, and regulating it once you get it right. For the most part, as long as you don't put things in that you're not supposed to put in, such as meat and dairy, a worm farm is the easiest pet farm you'll ever take care of.

You can have an indoor worm farm that is small and discreet, or you can have a larger one. I personally have a 4 tier layer farm, and I keep it outside because I have a large family to feed, so I usually have more kitchen scraps. Luckily worms breed according to how much food is accessible to them, so that means I get a lot of worms.

Since I use my worm farm for extra income, I do what I have to do in order to make quality products that local customers around here will want to purchase. That's important because worm poopy-pee is not exactly easy to market. I rely on repeat customers.

Can be started with very little, to no money - so all benefits can be basically pure-profit.

You can make a beginner's worm farm out of basically anything. Three or four 5-gallon buckets. A couple of totes. All you need is a drill basically, and some newspaper, and a few banana peels. If you're willing to dig up your own worms, more power to you. Be aware this may cause an invasion of grubs, or other types of worms. Red Wrigglers are said to be the best, but I dig up my own worms from my backyard. And they do rather well.

That being said, if you would rather have a professional setup, you can absolutely purchase pre-made worm farms. Be prepared to invest in it, because a good quality worm farm may cost about 150USD. Usualy they come with spouts and a liquid gathering area that separates the worm tea from the worm castings, and starter things for the worms itself.

You can earn money.

Obviously, the last reason I've listed here is the best reason. You can earn money using the products your pet worms provide. If you take care of your worms properly you will find that it's not very long before you are exploding with worms. Which means more worm castings, more worm liquid, and more worms. Every single aspect of a worm farm can be profitable, so long as you know how to market your worm products and get them sold.

By selling the castings and the fertilizer liquid, you can make quite a pretty penny, a gallon of concentrated can be sold up to $50USD, or more. Depending on whether you pre-dilute your product or not, you could make up to $100 easy on a gallon of un-diluted worm tea (if you have the right customer, which would most likely be a local farmer who grows crops). And that is only the liquid product the worms product. That doesn't include the soil-like worm-casting fertilizer they produce. There is a reason why people call it 'black gold.'

I personally use it as an opportunity to recycle and profit. I sell different-sized bottles (we recycle our plastics, so if I need a large juice bottle to hold some worm liquid, it is easy to access). I print out my brand label off of my home printer and peel off the bottle's label and replace it. I also have a flyer for all customers with the dilution instructions. I leave a selection with my local hardware store and they sell it for me. I use the liquid, basically all of my worm castings in my own personal garden. And when my worms are overpopulated I leave some at the hardware store for them to sell to fishermen.

Free fun fact for everyone: if you have fish, fish poop is also a good profitable item - and bunny poop. Bunnies and fish both poop a lot and if you have to clean up after them, why not profit from it?

If you would like to learn more about worm farms, check out the following articles.

Learn how to keep a worm bin healthy here in this article!

Where to sell your worm poop, and how much?

Once they have been published, I will link articles here on how to care for a worm farm, how to set up a worm farm, different kinds of worm farms, how to harvest worm farms, where to sell worm farm products, and the like here. It'll be a whole series, so make sure to subscribe to be notified when these articles are published. Or you can check this article every now and then to catch up on reading.

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