That’s great @kraven you have access to that many maybe start a side business people all over are getting into more ways of diverting organics from the landfills you have gold in them there piles of poo!
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@Tinytuttle Beware the worm-farm business idea… i had thoughts about it too and still toy with the idea but i’m certain it’s not a gold-mine. there have been several waves of vermi-composting/farming crazes from the '70s until now and even a notorious scam operation or two(both worms & waste processing)…the worm 70s scam was a ponzi scheme(nobody every got theirs) and more recently a place in so. CA was shut down because they weren’t following rules/laws & bilking investors. crazy. (think it was san luis obispo)
obviously, taking free shit, having free labor make more valuable shit, is attractive. where i’m from there’s a multi-millionair dump owner who simply inherited a dumpy junk-strewn property(aka Joe Garbarino) and has a tank. 
(i haven’t watched this yet "Tank Overhaul, Season2, Ep. 3):
the dude has peacocks all over the Marin dump 
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Interesting take on the worm thing … I sieved a 5 gallon of worm poo and sold it at 4$/lb made over 100$ on a bucket and have had repeat customers enough to get my other amendments I use for my grows guess it depends on location and how many are into all organic methods. Amazon sells a lb of reds for 30$
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…that’s kinda my experience… it’s almost like weed prices(schwag vs. A grade) 
a home-grow worm-farmer i met said he is basically contracting with a ganja grower who buys all 10 yards he can produce in a year. also said he was once hired by some folks to brew worm tea in huge batches up on “the hill” & all the dudes were mexican & covering their faces with bandanas. at night-time he wanted to leave & was told “i think you better stay here” (
implied), so he did & never did that again. 
another story he had was he had tried collecting dog waste from veterinarians when he began & stopped quickly after he thought about all the medicines going into the dogs. 
gnarly, in a bad way.
so my thoughts on the issue are that under-the-table business & boutique farming/contracts are the way to go. i have emailed Patrick King “the soil king” and Jack @ sonoma valley worm farm & they do some good friendly business. Jack’s farm is my envy. 
http://www.sonomavalleywormfarm.com/worms.php
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Yikes for that scenario that happened “on the hill” I think I’d probably make my own 
In my pants if I was in that situation… Patrick King Luv that guy his grows are amazing ! Gotta love those pineapples 
he puts out! Thanks for sharing @cannabissequoia!
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I can easily spend a half hour and get 250 -300 red wigglers. I do it when the boys go fish all the time, its a 1/2 acre of piles horse shit, every rain they come to the surface and you can pick up close to a pound each time you reach for them, its really ridiculous how many there are…ha put all them in a bin and let them do their thing, I’m thinking I would have a lot of worms ??
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@Kraven. Holy shit dude I need a big ol pile of shit too! They would overwinter easily in a big pile like that … I belong to a yahoo worm exchange group and people are always looking into composting and asking for worms to buy or barter 
pot of gold!
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They say for estimates a pound of red is almost a 1000 
That’s a 30$ bill right there! LOL
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@kraven you can easily start a bin with a 25 gallon fabric pot, some compost, and some rock dusts. Fill the bag with finished compost, add some basalt or glacial rock dust, worms, and cover with straw or newspaper. Just keep it slightly moist like a plant and they will do their thing.
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Man @ReikoX what don’t you know. . . That perfect! They are absolutely NO worms in any of the native soil nor will they be able to live in it so thanks to you bro yet again, I’ll be able to start one tomorrow with stuff I got!
Just got to find a place that sell them worms. I can get bait worms easy but that’s it
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@Hoodini I’v looked around and some bait/tackle shops sometimes have red wigglers often sold as or called Trout Worms… just look for the orange and red banding around the tail area those are your “Reds” though most store owners probably won’t know that species good luck
They are considerably smaller too on average!
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@Tinytuttle what about nightcrawlers do they not have the same benefits
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Night crawlers are harder to keep happy, they need a much larger container because they like to burrow deep.
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Ditto what @ReikoX said they can work the bottoms more but they don’t reproduce nearly as fast plus reds can eat there own weight in food/day! Good question @Hoodini
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Great answers guys. . .I definitely need the easiest and fastest worms I can get in this “wormaggedon” area so reds it is!
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Do any of you know a dependable “worms online” site? That might be easier for me to get them that way. . . Otherwise I’ll probably have to drive quite a ways to find them bastards… . . Wal-Mart wouldn’t carry them would they?
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Like it was mentioned in my previous post they could but more than likely they would haven’t the slightest clue I doubt they would have Eisenia fetida marked in the containers
Uncle jim’s worms on Amazon or try yahoo exchange search compost worms for your location you may have some nearby
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Thanks man sorry I missed that post. . . I’ve post overloaded myself today hahah must not be stoned enough
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What’s weird about the manure/bedding pile at the stable I get it from i’ve never seen anything alive in it. The heaps are massive(8’ high, maybe 1500 sq ft?) and are often smoking hot. There’s a range of ages of material, with the bottom being black & peaty with silvery hyphae looking stuff, and the newest is just horse bedding with shit & piss & feed debris. I often wonder what horses are on what meds there, are they all on a flea treatment(i.e. fipronil like dogs & cats), anti-biotics etc.? I’d swear i smell something like that in some of the bedding bud it’s also decomposing cedar & pine, so it’s hard for my crummy nose to figure out. 
Based on my earlier post, my worms gobbled the aged stuff but seem to avoid or ignore the newest stuff: 
@Kraven
For your sake that’s a great sign that pile is healthy.
@Tinytuttle LOL 
(This is so ripe for abuse, like yo-mama-jokes)
<— can’t tell yo-mama jokes to 1/2 the people he knows without being a seriously insensitive douche, because they’re RIP.
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