Just Worming Up - Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
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I LOVE your attitude of Non competition, and your family working together!❤
Sharing knowledge and experience with others, realizing the more people who know and adapt to using Vermiculture "Worm Farming " the better for all of us!
Organic gardening produces LIFE, not death as chemical fertilizers do!
Way to go on the great catch! 🐟
Keep up the wonderful example of sharing your knowledge and experience. ✌❤😎
Thanks, John! Right on!
I love the names you gave your bins 🥰
Thanks… my grandchildren names them 😊
I love how you make this a family type production. I enjoy seeing the interactions between grandpa and the grandkids.
Hey Jonathan! Yes, that’s what it’s all about!
I am from Texas and have fallen in love with your channel. You and your family is a true cluster of gems. God bless you and your family. Your information, enthusiasum and love of what you do shows in each and every video. I have loved your videos so much! Keep them going.
Thanks for the encouragement, Vicki!
LOL! “Bama boy” pronounce “bamma” …short for Alabama. I’m from the South, and all my in-laws are in Upstate NY, (Poughkeepsie, Red Hook, Albany) I love listening to your adorable accent! Thank you for this wonderful information, Capt Matt - you are changing the course of more than a few lives.
So funny!
Thanks for all the info 👍
The kids coming in for worms. I'm building racking tomorrow. Love you folks
Thanks for tuning in Greg. We appreciate the feedback.
Love your channel
I'm a worm farmer, too - one bin in the basement for several years now! I wish I had more space.😄
I absolutely love this channel!
Great video I am so glad I asked if you were going to be doing more videos and it was none for about 5 months.Thanks from Harleyville worm farm Harleyville South Carolina .I have learned just like you trying different types of ways . It's my 4 year and I love that you and your family are doing this together makes me very happy for you all.
Thanks, Richard. I appreciate you asking… it took some time and convincing from my kids!
Captain.
Thank you so much for answering my question. I was very excited to hear my name here. Way cool!!! Thank you. As the comments and others have said. Thank you for your videos and all the great information!! You are indeed a inspirational. The worm farm is a potential retirement hobby and income thank you very much!!!!!
Great to hear, Michael. You can do it!
Weeds, I just became a worm farmer.
Yep, you Herd me right. That dredded chore just became fodder for my future..
I might even mow them dinner one day.
Thanks allot Guys, somehow you make worms wholesome. Aloha.
P.S. Look I caught a Big fish, Great timing. Fish Tails Captain ?
Hey Phil... that's how it starts! That fish was not planned at all - just the grandkids doing their thing - so funny.
Have you ever considered harvesting the wheatgrass a couple times before totally flipping it over and killing it for the worms? I've cut 10 inch grass down to about 3 or 4 inches and it grew back quickly to 10 inches and I did it again, after that I fed the entire mass to the worms. Thanks again for the content!👍🤙👏🙌👏🙌👏🙌
Great idea!
Love the videos. Have had a worm farm for a year up in B.C. and looking to expand and do it better and every video I watch is full of information. Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome, Allan. I'm looking forward to hearing about your success!
Thanks Captain for answering my question.
Regarding question 2 about the worms escaping.....
As I've mentioned in my profile, I've b🪱een raising worms since 1987 - 35 long (I'm getting old) years 😆
I raise two types of red wigglers, lumbricus rubellious,
African nightcrawlers, Euros, & Indian blues. Six different types of worms.
I use standard 7-inch tall bus bins which are kept uncovered & in a dark room. In 35 years I've never had a great escape. I've had a worm escape here and there. That happens. I can even remember making a human error and I had about 15 on the floor and felt horrible, but that was my mistake and not weather related.
Never had a mass exit.
I've had a F1 tornado drop a tree on my house, been through several hurricanes and frequent tropical storms that come with huge fluctuations in barometric pressure.
I don't know why some people have worms that react to weather while others do not.
I've made a lot of friends in the worm hobbyist industry and don't know any that keep lights on full time other than yourself and likewise, the others I'm speaking of have not had great escapes during bad weather
I think something like that is an exception and not the norm. And I think perhaps, just perhaps, there is something off in the bin that is the leading Factor above any weather.
Adding the expense of lighting, even LED lighting, full time is an expense and requires people to keep worms where they have electrical outlets which may not always be possible.
I wanted to share my experience so people knew to raising worms don't think that having lights on full time is a requirement, because it is not 99.9% of the time.
Thanks for your comment, very helpful because I was wondering about the light being necessary.
@@jimt902 you're very welcome. There are thousands of worm farms and this is the only one I've ever seen that uss lights. It's counterproductive because red wigglers and other compost worms are surface feeders and light drives them down.... When it's time to harvest castings, most small breeders use the light method because worms dive away from light so quickly. He's adding food to the top because the worms are surface feeders and then putting a light to drive them away. I don't get it
No light. Not needed.
Thanks for the perspective!
Thank you for your great vids. You’re awesome. So is your family❤
Love what you are doing, thank you for all the content and knowledge. I’m hooked for life got an urban worm bin till I get a house to build what you got. Thanks again.
Hey Cody, you’re welcome. Sounds like a good plan!
Hi Captain Matt's,
I Watch all your video and I wont to say you: Thak's so mutch for sharing!
You are a great Man and a so sweet grand father.
I will try to follow your suggestions for the best worm farm.
Thank You for your video!
I really appreciate your sharing philosophy.
You are wery wise.
Greetings from North West Italy!
🇮🇪 😊👋
You’re welcome, Redarkrome!
Great video very instructional information. Thanks to you and the crew that helps you.
Cap't, my worms love the worm food recipe you have shared in an earlier episode. Thank you very much👍👍🤙 Experience beats class time in any endeavor🙏 Thanks for sharing all you do...
Captain Matt!! You and your family's energy make my heart very happy!! Great content and entertainment!! Worms, family, fishing and singing - all winners 😁 🪱🙋🐟🎶🎵
Another great video. If your going to mix feed into buckets just do some test buckets with small amount of feed. You’ll find an amount that works for you. They won’t starve if it needs more they’ll eat bedding. Samantha from memes shows her exact recipe but I believe she uses trays instead of buckets. Mine varies I have small buckets big buckets livestock feed tubs and trays
Thanks for the tips, Jill!
Food for bins can be frozen first this will kill any bugs but also break down faster in your worm bins.
I don’t have a worm farm but plenty of pallet bins of compost with worms in it, usually 5 cubic metres at a time.😀🇦🇺
Your son looks like a guy that has a youtube channel that builds his own drift boats lol. Like how informative your videos are, I'm super green and starting to learn and excited to start a small farm for bait.
You can do it, dpatt000!
Yes I remember you turning the wheat grass upside down.
Hey captain Matt I watched all your videos and I understand the process you go through from the breeder bins to the bulk bins but the one question I have is how do you know when the bulk bins are at max capacity of worms
Are you ever concerned about over population?
80 breeder bins across 3 bulk bins every 2 weeks, is there a special equation that goes into this?
Keep the good videos and info coming!
Another great video, Cap'n! Your attitude of "A High Tide Raises All Boats" is one that should be shared by everyone, instead of the usual worry of scarcity.
I've watched most of your videos and I have a suggestion: how about you put together a reading list for books that you've found helpful that are related to your videos? I'd suspect that there are some about general organic gardening, to get that perspective, and then others about composting and mating rituals of worms 😏
Link up the books' Amazon listings, in your description, and then people like me can get more context to your videos.
Cheers, Jeff
Great idea, Thanks, Jeff!
Newbie here starting in 5 gallon buckets about 2 1/2 gallons of dirt per bucket. Since watching your videos my population has exploded after starting with 200 worms. I love your set-up and im curious as to how you acquired your 1st customers for castings as I have 1/3 acre for composting. And worms galore here in GA and I'm making more castings than my gardens need. So again how did you find your 1st castings customers ?
Head over to the forum over at community.wormpeople.com/ There’s tons of information and experienced Worm People over there who support each other on their journeys.
Great video as always and I love the fact that it's always a family affair. The comment about adding the worm chow to the bedding was a very interesting one. I mix coffee grinds into the bedding as it is high in nitrogen and likely to heat up the bin if adding too much when the worms are in it. I also add grit into the bedding so I guess the chow wouldn't be too much of a leap. Have you done the test bin yet? How many days prior to putting the worms in would you say is ideal?
Great video once again captain! Could you put a whole fish in the large worm bin? Would it rot and smell before the worms finish the meal?
Do you ever have leachate draining from the bottom of your continuous bins? Love ya Matt! We live just north of Plattsburgh NY! Would love to take my family to visit your farm one day ❤️😊
Hey Neighbor! Some liquid drips at times when I water... but never has been problematic. Yes... reach out when you go south!
Hi:
Love your Videos and your attitude.
Question:
Thanks
How much or little humidity the worm castings need while in storage, to have the micro-organisms alive.
Good morning Captain Matt, I have watched lots of worm farming videos and I like what you do and how you keep it simple.
I saw another grower that was cycling a couple thousand buckets with the exact same 2.5 gallons of compost grow medium with a little chicken feed in the mix.
My question is what is the advantage to the large continuous flow worm bins?
The advantage is u can harvest from the bottom and feed at the top. Though I think if his were deeper less worms would fall out.
@@alexisbeaty394 Thank you Alexis. I also heard Captain Matt say that he puts all of the cocoons into the Breeder bin. He’s growing them out in the big bin.
I find the two approaches complementary for me... the breeder bucket approach allows me to "overload" the bulk bins with worms/cocoons for maximum population and casting production.
Outing fish waste and heads are good to burry in the veggie garden.
Thank you for answering my question about the flies. They're a nightmare. I'll give it a try 👍🏻
Someone else just told me that dianatacious earth works great and will not hurt the worms
@@CaptainMattsWorms 👍🏻
I seen a video where if u dont put any fruit in for a while they leave. Try backing off on fruit for a while
@@alexisbeaty394 Not using fruits lot's of fruits, but I'll try that too. Thanks
I used to have a problem with the small flies. Putting a plastic sheet on top of the bins covers 99% of the egg laying surface, and burying the food in center seems to have minimized the problem to only a couple here and there.
Thanks, Captain Matt, and Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA🪱 🇺🇸 🪱
Thanks for getting me comfortable enough to make Worm Tea.
I've had a Can-O-Worms since 2009 and had Leachate and Castings available. Now I have Tea to add to my water 🪱💧 🪱
Thanks for your knowledge 👩🌾👍
Great to hear. You’re welcome!
Hey Captain, I have a question. What is that black material that you cover your worm bins with? Thank you!
Hi matt i was wondering i haven't heard you talk about the Africans in a while I've been trying to decide if i want to keep raising them no one is interested in them not sure if it's because they are a little more difficult
I love watching your videos but question how did u get rid of mites? I have a HUGE white mite problem and cant seem to get rid of them.
Great video as usual. Thank you for sharing your experience. The information you share is easilu understood by the novice, a large scale worm farmer could vert easily end up confusing newbies. Beautiful family. What do you use for a grinder to process your worm chow?
He stated in another video a grinder to make flour he got one I believe from amazon
Hey Matt... Thank you! I'm planning on doing a worm chow video soon. I used to use a grinder, but have moved on to another method that I'll share.
Captain Matt, I haven’t seen you feed your worms any kitchen scraps yet, I do and I am constantly fighting the Nats and flying bugs, what Kind of bedding do you use and what else do you feed your worms besides wheat grass and warm chow, thank you sir.
Are you burying your scraps under the worm bedding? Are you only feeding them if and only if the worms have eaten all the previous meal?
I'm really enjoying these videos and considering building some bins.
I have a question.
Best case scenario,how many pounds of casting do you get per bin on average per year?
Hey Rusty! Last winter I got 5 tons between the large bin and 80 Breeder buckets.
Wow!
That's encouraging!
Thanks for the videos and sharing your experience with the world.
Thanks captain for sharing it's nice to watch your videos 🇪🇬
I would be concerned that adding weeds that have not been composted to your worm bin would be adding weed seeds. Which in turn would get added back into your garden when you spread the castings.
kenneth dupuis breaux bridge LA
Soil gnats are my biggest problem in my worm bin . How do you keep them under control ?
BTI bits (Mosquito bits) sprinkle in bedding and also mix some in the watering can when you water the bed.
I see that young men where out here in Utah
polyethylene plastic cover on the bin killed my bin due to air starvation! I believe weed mat (porous) will be safe, but what do you think?
Hmm… cover should be somewhat loose. Experiment and let us know!
Hey I have a question. Do you ever have to deal with any state regulations? Because worm castings are often used to grow food there are some legal issues as the operation grows. Have you run into any of these?
Hey MrDizuki... Definitely check your state's regulations - here in NY vermiculture falls under composting regulations of the Department of Environmental Conservation - the small volume I do is well within the "exempt" small-scale categorization.
Can you use chlorinated water with worm tea when mixing it with concentrate?
Better to let water sit for a day to let chlorine evaporate
Could honey be used instead of molasses?
Hi Carolina... most any sugar would likely work. Test it out!
@OKKING HERE! & NO WAY was my comment toward the Captain!, I WAS TALKING ABOUT ME! hahaha Thanks for the Inspiration and Knowledge! 🪱
Not all worms like it between 60 and 80° Captain Matt
-Canadian nightcrawlers the big daddy fisherman bait worm 🪱 Prefers temperatures between 40 and 55°
I’m doing some experimenting on worms i picked
We have four bins for breeding atm -there is almost no information on CNC‘s on the Internet I know you do primarily red wigglers and euros mainly reds -Being that you’re from upstate New York and you have a similar climate to Minnesota do you guys have any Canadian nightcrawlers native to New York?