In the worm farm construction section I described the construction of a small indoor worm composting bin and talked about moving up to a homemade bin or even a commercial worm farm. It really isn’t that important whether you buy a worm composting bin or you build it from scratch as long as you provide the elements that create a healthy environment for your worms. I provided a link for building a wood composting bin on the page I mentioned earlier and here I will provide you with some information on ready-made bins that you can purchase along with some worm composting bins reviews.

Tumbleweed Farm Worm Composting Bin

Ideal for those with limited space, the Tumbleweed Worm Farm composting bin consists of two sturdy polypropylene boxes, which are nested inside each other. The upper box has a perforated floor and a lid, and the lower box is fitted with a drain sprout. By having the worms in the top portion of the bin (kitchen scraps/organic waste is placed) the waste (liquid tea) filters through the holes into the bottom bin that can be combined with water for use as an organic fertilizer rich in nutrients. As the worms actually eat the bacteria in the decomposed food there is no odor to worry about, simply add your scraps and see the results!
Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.4 x 12.6 inches; 26.5 pounds   Learn more or Order Price about: $90

360 WF360B Worm Composting Bin

The Worm Factory 360 worm composting bin and system makes the entire process quick and easy. With a siphon air flow design, the Worm Factory 360 increases the composting speed. Now you can produce compost much faster than traditional composting methods. The Worm Factory 360 can be used indoors or outdoors allowing year round production. The Worm Factory 360 is odorless making it great for apartments, kitchens, garages, porches and more. Simply add a handful of worms and your organic waste to the bottom tray. The worms will start processing the food. Once the bottom tray is filled add another tray. The worms migrate upward to the newest food source leaving the bottom tray full of nutrient-rich compost. As waste is broken down, moisture filters through the system, taking nutrient-rich particles with it. This makes it possible to harvest organic liquid fertilizer right from the spigot.  20 year warranty. Learn more or Order Price  About $110

Worm Composting Bin Review of the 360 WF360B

I read a lot on the topic, including a lot of advice on making my own worm composting bin. However, DIY bins almost always involved work in getting your slimy friends to go to the other side of the bin. I decided to make the investment and buy a stack-able unit, because they’re made and used in a way that the worms migrate up and leave the finished compost behind. I thought it was well-worth the money now for the convenience and the anticipated money saved.

DS5TT 5-Tray Worm Composting Bin

The Worm Factory’s unique stack-able, multi-tray design makes it the most efficient worm composting bin around. Worms begin eating waste in the lowest tray, and then migrate upward as food sources in that tray are exhausted. By allowing worms to migrate upward, the worms separate themselves from the finished compost that is ready for the garden. Besides the worm castings that are produced through this process, the worm composting bin also produces a second type of compost. As waste is broken down, moisture filters through your Worm Factory, taking nutrient-rich particles with it. This liquid fertilizer, known as leachate is gathered in the special collection tray of the Worm Factory and can easily be drained from the spigot. Simply add a handful of worms and your organic waste to the bottom tray. The worms will start processing the food. Once the bottom tray is filled add another tray. The worms migrate upward to the newest food source leaving the bottom tray full of nutrient rich compost. As waste is broken down, moisture filters through the system taking nutrient-rich particles with it. You can drain organic liquid fertilizer right from the spigot. It’s compact square design gives the Worm Factory the smallest footprint of all worm composting bins. The worm composting bin tray stacking system allows it to hold the largest capacity of compost in the smallest amount of space, making it the perfect composter for anyone with space limitations. When full, each tray weighs only 12.5 pounds making lifting and arranging trays effortless. The included 16-page instruction manual makes setup fast and easy and gives tips on how to best manage your Worm Factory composter year-round. Learn more or order – Price about  $110.00

DS5TT Compost Bin Review

I have had worm composting bins before, but this is the easiest way to actually separate the food from the castings. You use a system of trays, initially placing the food in the bottom tray, and the tray above it is mostly fibrous material. Then you stop feeding them on the lower tray and then start adding food to the tray up above, and then adding another tray.

Can-O-Worms Worm Composting Bin

The Can-O-Worms vermicomposting bin has a multi-level design that’s easy to assemble and easy to use. The Can-O-Worms can be used indoors or out. Start with moist bedding, some non-fatty organic kitchen waste, and some red wiggler worms, and within a few months, you will have a large amount of compost that improves soil structure and aeration and promotes healthy root development. Generally, one pound of worms can take care of a half-pound of kitchen and garden waste. If you are allergic to molds and mildew, you should probably keep your Can-O-Worms outside. Molds occur naturally in worm composting bins and aid in composting. Red wigglers are temperature sensitive, so do not let your bin get below freezing or above 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Every Can-O-Worms is made of 100 percent recycled materials. Dimensions: 29in tall, 19 1/4 in diameter. This worm composting bin can hold up to 20,000 worms in 3 layers. Learn More or Order Price  About $125

Can-O-Worms Review

This product works very well if you want to compost using worms. It is made of recycled plastic, so you don’t need to worry that it’s creating more waste for the planet. Worms quietly produce pounds and pounds of nutrient-rich “vermicompost” that will help your garden and houseplants thrive, and dispose of your old papers, fruit rinds, coffee grounds, egg shells and veggie peelings in an earth-friendly way. I LOVE MY CAN O WORMS!

Red Wiggler 2Lb Package

Red Wiggler, Eisenia Fotida, worms are approximately 900-1000 to the pound.  They’ll eat almost anything organic and are perfect for worm composting bins. Red worms can consume organic material equivalent to their body weight each day to produce castings up to 75% of their body weight each day.

Red Wigglers are tough and hardy. Adaptable to many environments, Redworms have been breaking down organic waste to make natural fertilizer for millions of years. They also aid in the breaking down of pathogens. These worms are prolific breeders, laying one egg capsule as often as every seven days. Each worm capsule will hatch an average of 3 to 4 earthworms. The hatched earthworms will grow into breeders in about three months. They are very popular for worm composting bins and live bait for fish that prefer small baits, such as trout, bluegill, perch or crappie. Red Wigglers are easy to use as bait, easily surviving in temperatures between 38 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a pack with Two (2) pounds of worms.   Order some Worms Here Price About $47

When it comes to worm composting bins you can see that there is quite a variety of different units. It all depends on your requirements and your reason for composting with worms. You can see that worm farming is not a labor intensive hobby and how easily it could provide you with worm farming profits.

You might start your worm farm for worm composting or raising bait worms for your own use and then realize that your hobby can provide you with some worm farming profits. Just think about it for a minute, your initial livestock (worms) will multiply and at least double their population in a few months under the right conditions and then your original worms will do that again along with the new ones. They will continue to do that as long as they have enough room, food and kept in the proper temperature range. So if you provide the proper conditions you will have more worms than you would ever need for your own use. So what do you do with all these worms?

Worm Farming Profits from a Worm Farm Business

You may have started your night crawlers worm farming project for your fishing bait or composting needs, but have you thought about selling your worms or compost to make some extra money? Many people do just that, it’s a great way to supplement your income, or you can take the worm farming profits and expand your worm farm into a full time business.

The first question you would have to ask yourself is if there is a market for selling your worms or compost. Well, I am here to tell you that the market is huge and getting bigger all the time. The Green Movement is all about recycling, organic products and simpler living which are growing every single day at an incredible pace. Let’s have a look at some of the markets for creating and growing your worm farm profits.

Worm Farm Markets and Opportunities

The most obvious market that comes to mind is raising bait worms for fishermen such as night crawlers worm farming . Unless the fisherman has their own source of bait worms they are more than happy to part with a few bucks for a dozen worms. The fisherman is very serious about catching fish and they know that they can always catch something with a lively worm on their hook and the cost of good bait is secondary and just one way to profit from worm farming.

However your worm farm business doesn’t need to sell worms directly to the fisherman (although you can) you can sell your worms to the places that fisherman frequent. These places that sell bait worms include bait shops, gas stations, convenience stores, boat launches, campgrounds, marinas, resorts and you can even have your own bait vending machines. Yes, you sell your worms right out of a vending machine. Now that is what you call worm farming profits.

However that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to selling worms. Pet owners, pet shops, zoos, laboratories, schools, game breeders, new worm farmers and gardeners, both hobby and professional gardeners buy worms. Now for the best part, it is not a local market, your worm farm profits can come from anywhere. Worms are being sent via mail, UPS and Fedex every single day so no matter where you live you can sell worms anywhere and the buyer pays the postage or freight.

Worm Farm Profit Opportunities

Now if that is not enough opportunity for you there are other avenues for worm farming profits. With the worm composting that you will have going on inside your worm farm business there are also markets for that byproduct which is worm castings. People that enjoy gardening as a hobby and professional gardeners that grow prize winning flowers and houseplants know that the ultimate soil amendment is worm castings. You can bag up your worm castings and sell them to serious gardeners everywhere in the country. In fact most sellers of worm castings sell a mix of soil and castings because the castings are so rich it could be too much for the plants. Just imagine the worm farming profits you could make selling worm poop or castings.

As you can see there are many ways in which you can earn some worm farming profits from your worm farm. You can start small and with some planning, determination and worm farm construction you could build a very profitable and sizable worm farming business.

Indoor Worm Farm Construction

To build a worm farm for keeping inside your house or apartment you could head down to the local home center and pick up one of those plastic containers that they sell for around ten or twelve bucks. They are usually somewhere around 15 inches wide, 24 inches long and about 14 inches deep, the exact measurements aren’t critical. However make sure you get one with a tight fitting lid which is constructing a worm farm for inside the home.

The next step in your worm farm construction is to wash out the plastic container (after all worms are going to live in there)and punch some holes in the container to allow for fresh air to enter, but not too many or too big. Now it’s time to whip up your worm’s bedding material or composting medium. I like to use shredded newspaper, but not those color advertising pages, just the regular newspaper. I run the news paper through a shredder that I use for sensitive documents, but you can just tear them up into small pieces and strips. Then will dampen all the paper with tap water (not soaking wet and dripping). Then I will take an add a couple shovels of garden soil along with a dozen or so smashed egg shells, some organic table scraps like fruits and vegetables (but not citrus fruits or anything like oranges, lemons or grapefruit), some old bread or buns and mix it all together in your container and now you have built a worm farm.

The next step in making your worm farm is adding your worms and feeding them regularly.  Don’t go out to the flower bed, but you can go to the bait shop to get your worms as long as you get red worms. The best worms for indoor worm composting are red worms or commonly called “red wrigglers”. These red worms are known for eating as much as half their body weight in a day which makes them ideal for vermicomposting. This is also a gauge for how much you should feed your slimy friends. You don’t need to feed them every day and you should take in to consideration how make worms are in your worm farm.

Backyard, Garage or Larger Worm Farm Construction

If you are the do it yourself-er type you can start your worm farm construction with one or a series of beds or boxes shown in the drawing below. Building a worm farm for a hobby is great and if you want to save some money and worm farming profits until you decide if worm farming is for you can start by constructing one of these worm boxes shown below yourself with a  4’ x 8’ sheet of plywood, a couple 2” x 4”s and some screws and hinges. That is what you call worm farm construction from the beginning. If you would like a drawing and all the measurements to build this worm farm bed just send click the link here http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub215.pdf and you will find the plans and instructions.

Commercial and Large Scale Worm Farm Construction

Are you considering a large scale or commercial worm farm? If you are then you better know what you are getting into because worm farm construction on a commercial scale requires a very big investment. Building a worm farm on a commercial level means you will to purchase land, buildings, property, and equipment and yes of course the tons of worms, bedding and the supplies you will need to operate a worm farm of that size.

Remember what I said earlier, one of the great things about worm farming is that you can start small and build to whatever size you desire. You can start as a hobby and build your worm farm into a profitable business or you can maintain a level that is just enough for your needs whether it be for compost and castings or for raising bait worms.