About us

As a 3rd generation farmer, I was frustrated with constant weed pressure and the need to combat them with spraying herbicides. I wanted to farm as natural as possible and reduce and eventually eliminate the need for herbicides. One day I ran across an article about worm castings and their many benefits for growing plants. Since we had access to a lot of the foods they eat, the ability and materials to build some worm bins and the space to do it, we decided to give it a try.

With the onset of covid, I was put on furlough from my off-farm job. That provided the perfect opportunity to remodel an old building into a heated and insulated space that we now call "the worm shed". After much work, we had the worm shed completed and the worm bins ready for their new tenants. It was then that I realized how expensive redworms were because we needed a lot of them. I knew next to nothing about raising worms and I was worried about spending a lot of money on worms and having them die. So instead of buying them, we were able to find a considerable amount of them at some compost piles on our property. 

We started our bins with fewer worms than recommended but we weren't in a hurry so we planned to let them naturally reproduce. Fast forward 2-1/2 years later to 2024 and we've learned a lot in that time. We've changed the recipe of materials that we feed to the worms and dialed in our process to improve quality and consistency.  

We didn't want to rush our product to market without using it ourselves. In 2023 we used it in our garden and offered it to friends to try out. We've seen firsthand the positive results in terms of plant health and vegetable production and have heard the same from those who have used it.