One day I looked in my worm bin and saw these little amber looking balls in it. I thought to myself, am I housing spider eggs? Not knowing enough about worms. I started researching about those little balls in my bin. Did you know that worms lay cocoons and when they hatch it’s around three to four worms at a time. The cocoons will stay dormant for up to 2 years until the conditions are right and then hatch.

Amazing right?

One worm can turn into four worms within one month’s period time and within one acre theres around one million worms.

Worms are the most important organism in the world because they enrich and amend our soil.

Let’s’ take another look at how worms easily multiply. So, if you would buy 1 lb you would have approximately 1000 worms. Within 30 days one worm turns into four and multiplies that by a 1000 you could potentially have 4000 worms.

Crazy right?

So, immediately you’re thinking that you could be into some kind of business adventure, right?

1 lb. of worms sells for around 55.00

Then, the best part you would just take your food scraps that you would normally throw away and feed it to your worms.

Worms are hermaphrodites too and what this means is that they have both sex organs male and female, but they cannot self fertilize, it takes two.

Now let’s get down to the dirt. When I first received my 2000 worms, they all died during delivery because it was to cold outside. Luckily, I was sent a replacement but then they all had mites. Yep, so then I still didn’t give up and through some care they recovered within a few months because I used diatomaceous earth.

Adding coffee grounds is also a natural bug repellent and helps maintain your PH.

I also would consider knowing about gardening and worms as a building block in the case of your emergency needs.

Composting and gardening can be a simple way to help with budgeting your money during this economy and still eating good foods and eating even better.

Then, there has been an uprise in hobbyist learning about gardening, cooking, food storage, organic fertilizer, self sustaining, and farm to table.

Now, if you’re thinking about breeding worms you’ll need a separate bin for breeding. You can pick out the cocoons out separately or use s sifter.

Worm chow or worm grits is also needed for feeding baby worms