Summer returned to Wallowa County as the temperature hovered in the mid 90's by late afternoon...My morning was spent at the JC with the Write People, then home for a short time before driving to Enterprise, meeting up with fellow gardeners and a jaunt to Lostine...Jay's Worm Farm was our destination...Jay rents an old "hog barn" for his worm business...He started it about 4 years ago, thinking his son would use it for a senior project, when that didn't pan out, he now runs it as a small family business...His only advertizement is a "Worms" sign on highway 82 and flyers that have been distributed around the county...His sales are local and he doesn't seem interested in sales via the internet...Large bins made of pressed board fill the building and are the home for thousands of "Red Wigglers...In these bins the worms spend their time eating, pooping and reproducing..." Gardeners love Red Wigglers, as they compost all kinds of garden trimmings, food scraps (veggies and fruit) newspapers and manure into rich, ready to use compost for gardens of all kinds.
He packages the finished product in ziplock bags and also sell a concentrated fertilizer tea in gallon milk jugs...Both of these are for sale at the worm farm...Worms, by the pound, are also for sale...As gardeners are always looking for new easy to use fertilizers (other than chemicals) we left the worm farm with bags of worm castings to try on our own gardens...It was tempting to buy worms but common sense told me that I have Red Wigglers, already at work in my gardens and I probably wouldn't go to the extra work of grinding and heating my garden trimmings for them to digest more easily...They will just have to do it the old fashion way...Hugs To All...OWAV:)
Red Wigglers at work.
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