You want to end up with a mixture of semi fresh and old and dry, so when mixed together you end up with a nicely airated, friable, slightly damp bedding for the worm farm. Put in an effort to get the right manure is what I’m saying here guys. If you buy bagged feedlot manure or cheat and go to a feedlot or green oats paddock.

You want semi dry tall grass fed pats, NOT the type of pats found in feedlots which are full of grain etc. This will give better pats than say an all green oats paddock. While scouting for paddocks with good pats, you want to find an area that has a bit of a mix of green grass and a good amount of dryer tall grass. taller ones with a nice bit of wrinkle or with fold lines on them and some older, dryer ones that we can mix together to form our perfect worm farm bedding recipe. You will need to plan a hr or 2 out in the scrub to find some of these cow pats. I’m talking about old school hunting and gathering here, I’m not talking about standing in a tackle shop all day looking at lures and day dreaming about how big a fish each one would catch or going down to the hardware store to buy bags of stuff that wont work. It will require periodic care as we are talking about living creatures here so be prepared to get your hands dirty from time to time.įirst job is to grab a shovel and get out into the fresh air with the family and gather some “ingredients” that we will need to make this mission a success. Let me show you a simple, escape proof worm farm that you can build with the kids in a day that will work and will be fun to setup. My Name is Andy, I am a commercial worm grower and have been breeding, growing, and supplying worms across Australia for almost 30 years and I’ve lost count of the amount of people telling me how they tried to start a worm farm up in the hopes of having a never ending supply of worms but it failed misserably. You wont find any commercial nightcrawler worm growers using these types of systems usually found at hardware stores.Ĭost aside, They simply dont work very good for nightcrawlers. So, You want to build a nightcrawler worm farm huh?Ī quick search online for worm farms will reveal all sorts of complicated contraptions of moulded plastic marketed to the guys who want to try their hand at a bit of backyard worm farming.

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