Worm Farm Turns Food Waste into the Best Fertilizer in the Garage TOUR

[@growingyourgreens]

Jump to the following parts of this episode: 00:14 Las Vegas Worm Farm 01:20 How to Start a Worm Farm in Your Garage 01:52 Only use locally sourced ingredients to Make Worn Castings 03:02 Their First Worm Bin: Worm Factory 360 04:22 Ideal Temperature for Worms 05:04 Outdoor DIY Worm Box in Las Vegas 07:10 How to Keep Worms alive outside: Watering to Keep cool 07:54 Flow-Thru DIY Worm Bin 10:16 DIY Worm Bins in Garage built into metal shelving using melamine particle board 13:00 Why These Worm Castings Are Better than Others I have farms I have visited 14:03 How he harvest worm castings from his flow thru system 15:55 Growing Live Worms for Sale 17:35 Growing Breeding Worms for On-Farm Use 19:15 Feeding High Protein Mix to Breeding 20:45 What he is feeding his worms - Diverted Food Scraps 22:30 Best Equipment to Grind up food not a blender, a hammer mill 29:43 Cardboard thru Hammer Mill 25:41 Using Hammer Mill to Make Local Leaf Dust 27:40 Don't feed Chicken Crumbles to Worms 28:15 Using Hammer Mill to Grind Local Mesquite Pods and Leaves 28:25 Main Food he Feeds to Worms: Local Compost 31:45 Transforming Landfill Waste into Local Worm Castings 33:45 Seed Sifter Used to Sift Worm Castings for Small Amounts 35:15 Homemade DIY Compost Sifter Trommel Made with Bike tires, Treadmill Motor, Wire Mesh, plastic sheeting, and 2x4's 38:02 Keep Your Worms Moist with Filtered Water to Keep Biology 41:15 Testing Soil Biology of Las Vegas Worm Castings 42:52 Ensure Your Worm Castings or Compost is Living Soil 43:44 The problem with Store-Bought Bag Soils 45:55 Interview with Dennis Wichter owner of Las Vegas Vegas Worm Farm 47:14 Why did you start a worm farm? 48:28 Why is it important to use only locally sourced ingredients? 49:26 Why is it important to you to divert landscape waste? 51:00 Why do you only sell your worm castings locally? 53:50 What do you do to keep your worms alive in the Hot summer? 55:45 How do you keep your outdoor worm bins alive in the summer? 57:25 Why did you choose red wiggler composting worms? 59:05 What benefits have customers got from your worm castings? 1:01:45 Why do feel worm castings work to help people grow better food? 1:04:05 Why Worm Castings are Better than Miracle Grow or Organic Fertilizers 1:05:05 How does the food soil web work? 1:07:10 Build up food soil web creatures to Create Your Own Fertilizer instead of buying it. 1:08:25 How can you make Compost Tea to multiply microbes? 1:11:34 Tell me about buying a hammer mill. 1:15:40 Why did you make a DIY Trommel and how much did it cost? 1:17:35 How can you buy your worm castings locally? 1:18:45 Will you answer questions about worms and starting a worm farm? 1:20:11 What keeps you motivated to keep on going? 1:22:15 Any final words of wisdom you would like to share? Las Vegas Worm Farm lasvegaswormfarm.com/ Las Vegas Worm Farm KZbin kzbin.info/door/aHAlkbpRR1aKZ_hEY_1-pg Las Vegas Worm Farm Instagram instagram.com/lasvegaswormfarm/ Las Vegas Worm Farm Facebook facebook.com/LasVegasWormFarm/

[@lasvegaswormfarm]

Thank you John for visiting and sharing our little worm operation. Ot was a pleasure sharing my story with you and everyone.

[@johnbladykas4885]

Words can not explain all the information.thanks for sharing. A excellent operation to show , So keep up on showing.more the people know about worm compost will grow his operations

[@anthonyromano8565]

My 20 gallon and 10 gallon worm bin has made about 6 cubic feet of premium worm castings from a one man kitchen and recycled potting soil and and half a bale of peat. just harvested 3 cubic feet. Its good stuff.

[@mopar426power]

I did the same using 2-30 gal grassroots living soil fabric pots. Amazed at the quantity and quality I can get at home. I do add some exotic goodies to the bin every now and then to boost the biological profile and nutrient density but it's relatively cheap since I'm doing it on a home scale.

[@figtree393]

I did the same, used a mortar tray. Now have 14 mortar trays full of castings and worms. Just feed them my left overs from my juicer. They seem to love carrot 🥕 as much as I do.

[@DiegoPunchw]

Great info, Thanks! Note: Yes in the "poop loop" when bacteria are consumed by predators the waste are realesed like soluble liquid organic fertilizer ready available for plants, no need more breakdown process ;)

[@upcycleableme7215]

Awesome. The more we divert from the landfill, the better. Vermicompost for the win!!!

[@Grateful_Grannie]

Amazing “enviro”-premier. Every community needs a local, regenerative resource like this. Mad respect!

[@figtree393]

Got to love Dennis. He is great.

[@kathleenmead9259]

John, I watch a lot of gardening videos, and I have to say this one was one of the most inspiring ones yet! Thank you for sharing!

[@VincentHarkiewicz]

What an amazing small worm farm. Amazing DIY innovation!

[@johnbladykas4885]

John thanks for sharing. Outstanding video, great stuff Please do a video of the hammer mill

[@TheHomemakingHaven]

Perfect timing, I was just starting to set up my own worm farm. Great info as always😎

[@Sampozsik333]

Thanks John for your time I always appreciate your informative videos. Inspired me to grow my own produce and greens ,which has been very rewarding experience

[@ChadnRanda]

Heck yes John you never under deliver😮😮 so many good ideas😊😊thanks

[@elchivocolectivo7928]

How awesome!

[@Randyb4ut]

Great video.Thanks for sharing. New subscriber to your channel 👍. You are very informative 👍. ❤

[@ozarkcyn1]

I bought worms at Star because I didn't know about this company until now. I put them in the outdoor fridge because it got hot. They died and stunk to high heaven. And I bought a ton of worm gold castings because I didn't know about them. Now I do! Thanks!

[@wernerkumm2444]

Thank you for this awesome video... the best and most informative and well explained I have seen. I'm in South Africa, western Cape and my yard have very sandy soil. Definitely will start something outside asap. Thx again

[@rajoany5989]

Great video.

[@howtoitall76]

Thanks

[@lootbird]

i missed the part where the worms grew up in lights of Vegas?

[@bseant420]

can we get some info on where to get the hammer mill? ty

[@anthonycordero5733]

How is t.d doing is he getting ready for outdoor grow

[@chanaguerrero5762]

A hybrid water heater will help keep your garage a bit cooler.

[@rockyusa2012]

Lucky there are no bears 🐻

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

They can smell thr menstruation

[@halbertking2683]

As I like to say " My Worms Gotta Eat , Too . "

[@Justinbeehoney]

I saw a guy use rotten meat to bread maggots to feed all the chickens for free 🎉🎉🎉

[@MusicalGhostHunter]

Wish they had green bin in Indiana

[@lootbird]

is he making the worms with high quality inputs, are they full of pesticides?

[@srqTactical]

What if the garage is hot?

[@kristinesutton846]

What is a troumal?

[@richstone2627]

Worm poop rules.

[@mac.jenkin]

Life goal: acquire a us/canadian -made hammer mill

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

I got worms

[@snowcrustracer]

Did you know worms are a invasive species?

[@marta77inf]

I doubt they are in the desert.

[@lasvegaswormfarm]

I could be wrong but I Believe that every species of composting worms that we have in North America is non-native. The cool thing about composting worms is that if there's no organic material for them to feed on they won't leave that area.

[@steelmaster73]

​@@lasvegaswormfarmvery true...I was running 3 flow through bins and just using red wigglers...I finished working the bins and stopped feeding them and the worms left.

[@lasvegaswormfarm]

​@steelmaster73 thats pretty interesting. How big were your CFTs?

[@steelmaster73]

@@lasvegaswormfarm are you familiar with the totes grocery stores use with the interlacing lids? I'd guess they were 20 gallonish. I used 3 stacked inside one another. The bottom had 0 holes the middle had .25" holes and I had .375" holes in top bin. I was just using them to get rid of waste...I had no idea what I was going to get in return

[@lootbird]

is his business have extremely low end? like he gets everything sourced to him for free and then sells it

[@nicholasdemarest4254]

I don't fertilize my garden. I use charles dowding method once a year apply 1-2 inches compost. I will never add worm castings due to the worms in my garden. Worm castings to me if you have a healthy soil worm castings are a waste of money.

[@lasvegaswormfarm]

I would agree, if you have established a good soil and have native worms there is no need to add any additional amendments, especially if you are using the chop n drop method. Dr. Clive Edwards from Ohio State said that 100-250 worm per sqyd was an indication of a healthy soil. For those like me that live here in Las Vegas, our native soil is dirt and has no organic material in it so adding things like compost and castings can help convert the dirt into something that can sustain life and over time those microorganisms can turn it into a nice soil.

[@ooulalah4333]

It would help to actually show video inside the bins and the microscope slide so everyone could see. A lot of repetition watching someone talk. Need to watch 2×. Talking re the blender he says it was too fine...but then says the leaf dust was ideal...???The guy says he keeps lid on outside bin to keep out critters but then says his other outside bin he only covers when it gets cold. Huh? So that one can have critters? Tedious. Couldn't this have been like a half hr max?

[@dnawormcastings]

Good way to keep food waste out of the tips 🇳🇿🪱❤️