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Worm Foods

Organic Worm Farm offers the finest food for your worms, Purina Worm Chow! Don’t be fooled by others offering worm food or worm chow which is a homemade mix lacking in essential minerals and vitamins. Homemade worm food can also contain seeds, hence contaminating your worm castings.

Directions:

Feed worms daily or adjust feeding schedule to management program. When surface feeding, sprinkle the bed lightly with water and scatter the feed lightly over the bed surface. Adjust the amount of feed to what the worms will consume daily. When redworms are raised in bedding which contains composted organics (food items, manure, etc.) decrease the feeding rate. Be sure the feed is consumed before additional feeding. The amount of feed depends upon the number of worms in the bed. Overfeeding may lead to a sour, moldy bedding which is undesirable. For best results, ON NOT stir or turn the bedding at. Do not sprinkle feed or limestone directly upon worms.

Ingredients:

Ground corn, ground soybean hulls, wheat middlings, dehydrated alfalfa, cane molasses, calcium carbonate, porcine meat meal, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, ground wheat, dicalcium phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, fish meal, dried beet pulp, wheat germ, corn gluten meal, salt, soybean oil, porcine animal fat preserved with BHA, folic acid, choline chloride, DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, nicotinic acid, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulphate, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B-12 supplement, vitamin A acetate, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper, sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate.

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Storage:

Store in dry well ventilated area free from rodents and insects.

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Alabama Jumpers

Alabama Jumpers are a different type of composting worm and do well outside in the yard or garden area south of Chattanooga, TN. The worms grow up to10 inches in length and will jump out of your hand as they wiggle. The Alabama Jumper or Georgia Jumper also make an excellent fishing worm.Alabama Jumpers

Alabama Jumpers – Are not prolific to date when raised in worm bins, however can be very prolific when raised outside in the yard, flower or vegetable gardens.

Alabama Jumpers can eat half its body weight or more per day of food scraps. Alabama Jumperseat many types of nitrogen based food scraps such as vegetables, fruits, melons… however make a better maure worm or simply raised in peat moss with food supplements. They should not be fed tomatoes, lemons, oranges etc. due to the acidic levels within them. They are usually raised in carbon based bedding such as shredded newspapers, cardboard and peat moss.

Alabama Jumpers can be fed Purina Worm Chow as a primary diet if you prefer or used as a supplement due to the nutritional value which is loaded with assorted grains, minerals and vitamins to help raise fatter healthier worms.

The Alabama Jumper is probably the least known worm and the reason Alabama Jumpers Blog was started as we are currently running experiments to see what conditions they favor, if the can become prolific inside….

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Organic Worm Farm offers Alabama Jumpers in quantities from 1/4 pound to 2,000 counts.

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African Nightcrawler

Organic Worm Farm offers the finest African Nightcrawlers. These worms are actually the best composting worm under the correct environment which is a little known secret as many do not raise them. The African Nightcrawler also makes a great fishing bait, especially with its overall length of 6 to 8 inches with some reaching 10 inches..

African Nightcrawlers – are a prized composting worm and fishing worm.

African Nightcrawlers can eat half to one and a half of its body weight per day of food scraps. They eat many types of nitrogen based food scraps such as vegetables, fruits, melons… however make a better maure worm or simply raised in peat moss with food supplements. They should not be fed tomatoes, lemons, oranges etc. due to the acidic levels within them. They are usually raised in carbon based bedding such as shredded newspapers, cardboard and peat moss.

African Nightcrawlers can be fed Purina Worm Chow as a primary diet if you prefer or used as a supplement due to the nutritional value which is loaded with assorted grains, minerals and vitamins to help raise fatter healthier worms.

The African Nightcrawler is the most heat tolerant worm we carry! They are easily raised indoors or outdoors in worm bins at a temperature range of 70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

Organic Worm Farm offers African Nightcrawlers in quantities from 1/4 pound to 2,000 counts, which is approximately 8 pounds. Larger orders are available by contacting us.

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To order African nightcrawler worms, visit our Online Store.

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Red Wigglers

Red Wiggler WormsOrganic Worm Farm offers the finest red wiggler worms on the market today! These are known by many to be the best composting worm… These worms are bed run which means they area mix of young wigglers to adult worms.red wiggler worms

Red Wiggler Worms – also known as the red wriggler worm is a prized composting worm when it comes to food scraps, however for castings, there is one prized over the red wiggler, African nightcrawlers.

The red wiggler worm can eat half its body weight per day or 3 1/2 pounds of food scraps per week per pound of worms. Red wigglers eat many types of nitrogen based food scraps such as vegetables, fruits, melons… They should not be fed tomatoes, lemons, oranges etc. due to the acidic levels within them.

Red wiggler worms can be fed Purina Worm Chow as a primary diet if you prefer or used as a supplement due to the nutritional value which is loaded with assorted grains, minerals and vitamins to help raise fatter healthier worms.

They are easily raised indoors or outdoors in worm bins at a temperature range of 65 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

Organic Worm Farm offers red wigglers in quantities from 1/4 pound to 5 pound. Larger orders are available by contacting us.