Wood Worm Farms

It seems like the idea of wild manure worms, that somehow got to a compost heap on the farm, was a mistake. Wytze Bos, a famous person sometimes making visits to the farm, told me the true story. Approximately 2 years ago his friend gave him a worm bin, that the fiend couldn't maintain anymore. Wytze passed the bin to Peter, responsible for compost then, and Peter simply dumped all the content in a huge compost heap. The heap was around 2m high and 5m wide and was made of grass clippings and wood chips. Such a big volume of compost remained warm even in winter and worms survived and multiplied. Later, the big heap was separated and moved to several other places, so the worms got to all the possible compost locations on the farm. Wytze's friend lives on West Island, and there is not so much worm distributors around here. So it's possible, that the worms originally came from Wood Worm Farms!

On the picture are the worms, "extracted" from from one of the heaps. The bait is coffee grounds.

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