Welcome to the Worm Castings Page!
Worm castings, also know as vermicast or vermicompost, is the waste excrement of earthworms. Worm castings make a great natural soil amendment and fertilizer. “Vermi” is a Latin word for worm, and is used an the words vermicast, vermicompost, and vermiproducts.
We have four wood heated 8x4ft bins that can hold in total 128,000 red worms and European night crawlers. Under perfect conditions the bins are calculated to be able to yield up to 11 tons of castings per year. That’s a lot of dirt to shovel!. We feed our worms a mix of manure from local farms, organic waste, and cardboard.
Prices
***Spring Sale!**
$.75 per pound.
$30 for 40lb bag.
$800 per ton
For large orders we can deliver castings in barrels to dump at your location, or you can also bring and fill your own container here!
Application Rates
- Lawns: 10lbs per 100 square feet.
- Vegetable/Fruit Gardens: 30 to 40 lbs per 100 square feet for large plants, and 20 to 30 lbs per 100 square feet for small plants.
- Perennials: 30lbs per 100 square feet.
- Potted Plants: 1/2 inch of worm castings every 4 months.
- Seed starter mix: 1 part worm castings to 4 or 3 parts peat/other compost.
- Trees/bushes: In Spring, apply 1/4 to 1/2 inch of worm castings within drip line.
Inside the worm farm
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- Red worms in a bucket.
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- Salamander in worm bin.
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- Red worms feeding.
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- Worm castings harvested.
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- Cardboard and horse manure bedding.
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- Kitchen scraps top off the bedding.
Processing of worm castings
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- Drying worm castings in the kiln.
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- Sifting debris from worm castings.
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- Sifted worm castings are collected.
Heating and ventilation of worm bins
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- Kiln output and return ducts.
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- Burying worm farm heat duct.
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- Underground heating duct connections.
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- Manure preheating between bins.
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- Heat duct from kiln through shed.
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- Heat duct connection to sifting mill.
Refilling worm bins with horse manure
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- Horse manure pile insulated under snow.
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- Manure preheating between bins.
I would like to prebuy some vermicompost for next spring.
Please call me or e-mail me with cost of compost–I vermicompost myself, but I need more than I can produce for my home garden.
I have a trailer that I can P/U bulk compost and bring it home that will work with a skip loader or bucket.
William Meeks, 1201 Wenonah St., Negaunee, Mi., 49866
9064755219