Red Worms are known as the kings of composting because of their rapid digestion of organic material and high-nutrient waste that they produce. Whether you are looking to reduce your carbon footprint or just add some extra flower juice to your gardens, Red Wiggler Worms are the most cost-effective composting machines around (see why below).

5 Reasons You Want Red Worms in Your Garden:

• 100% Raw Fertilizing Power:

Ever price checked fertilizers? There’s a good reason that manure sells for $5 every 40 pounds while worm castings are $3.50 a pound. Worm castings are extremely effective fertilizers for the garden. Mother nature has had a long time to perfect the organic composting process and Red Worms are her tool of choice for the job. These critters contain five times more nutrients than even the finest top soil on the market. Not to mention that you will be saving gas and time from not making those long trips to the department store for composting anymore.

• Reduce Your Carbon Footprint:

Add a worm bin to your order and you will be doing your part to protect the environment. One of the major bi-products of landfills is methane gas- a destroyer of the ozone and a nasty pollutant in the air. We can do our part in reducing methane emissions through worm composting our household waste. Through an aerobic decomposition process, the worms wiggle through the ground and aerate the soil as they decompose the organic material in the dirt.

Just how much can you reduce your carbon footprint? An average worm farm can recycle 6-8lbs of trash a week! With a little planning, you can recycle up to 60% of your household waste a week.

• Garden Benefits

Plants need a very specific soil composition to thrive. Wigglers burrow and dig holes into the ground to aerate the soil. This allows the right composition of nitrogen and oxygen to enhance plant growth.

• Organic Worm Castings

Worm castings, or worm poop as we rednecks like to say, is known amongst farmers as black gold. The rich castings that worms produce provide plants with sugars, amino acids, and pro-biotic enzymes that increase plant development. In addition, there are natural bacteria, fungi, and protozoa that grow from the worm castings and work symbiotically with the garden soil to assist in plant development.

• Family Fun

Kids enjoy worm farms because they are live animals. Our family loves having thousands of “pets” to play with. The worms make great science projects and teachers enjoy using the worms for school lessons. Who would of thought that worms could bring your family closer together?