Will and Alyssa got into worm farming at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, when they discovered their father’s neglected worm composting bin in the backyard. These mini entrepreneurs know their stuff, rattling off the types of worms they grow and their benefits, the amount of time they spend each day on their care (about 1½ hours) and a list of their other “favorite” weekly activities - children’s choir, Chinese lessons, karate (they are both green belts, with a goal to become brown belts this summer), hula hooping, basketball and, of course, playing with their guinea pigs. By raising their own worms, plant lovers can avoid the steep price of castings while reaping the benefits in their gardens and keeping methane-producing food waste out of our landfills. The only farmers who can use it on that scale are cannabis growers.”Ĭastings are a natural byproduct of raising worms, but they’re also labor-intensive to collect, which is why they cost so much more than compost, according to the worm farmers. I sell regular compost for roughly $25 a yard, but I’m getting $450 a yard for castings, so you’ve got to be motivated. They always say something like, ‘I’m growing a bunch of tomato plants,’ but castings aren’t cheap. “I mean, they don’t tell me they’re cannabis growers, but I can usually tell. “Cannabis growers love to use it,” Matosian said. He’s been raising worms just for their castings since then, but he’s had so many requests to purchase composting worms that he’s decided to resume selling the worms by early April.
Mike Matosian of Oaktree Worm Farm & Soils gave up selling worms after the Creek fire destroyed his Sylmar nursery in 2017. the Worm Wrangler, who raises and sells worms at his Glendale home. And when the castings are made into a “tea,” they also help protect plants from a variety of pests, said Chris Jung, a.k.a. But even better, worm poop - known as castings - is pure gold for plants and thus highly coveted by organic gardeners, especially cannabis farmers, whose many medicinal products make organic growing a must.Īs a soil amendment, worm castings act as fertilizer, helping plants grow stronger with higher yields. A pound of these hungry composting worms can devour half their body weight in a day.Ī pound of these hungry composting worms can devour half their body weight in a day under optimum conditions - with the help of beneficial microbes that break down the food into microscopic worm-size bites, according to worm farmers.
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