Description
Red wigglers are the workhorse of composting. They eat close to their own body weight in scraps and bedding every day, breed quickly in a healthy bin, and turn what would otherwise go in the trash into some of the richest, darkest castings you can put on a garden bed. If you have ever bought bagged castings at a store and winced at the price for what amounts to a few pounds of dirt, raising your own worms fixes that problem for good.
Ours are raised here in bins we manage ourselves, not shipped in from a broker, so what you get is an established, healthy colony ready to get to work in your own bin the day it arrives.
How many do you need
- 100 count is a solid starter colony for a small kitchen-scrap bin.
- 250 to 500 count suits an active household bin or a raised garden bed you want to inoculate directly.
- 1000 count is for serious composters, small-scale worm farmers, or anyone starting a larger vermicomposting system from scratch.
A good rule of thumb is roughly a pound of worms per square foot of bin surface once your colony is established, so it is fine to start smaller and let them multiply rather than buying more than your bin can support right away.
Good to know: We ship live, so orders go out early in the week to avoid weekend transit and keep worms out of a hot mailbox on arrival. Open the container as soon as it arrives and get them into a moist bin. Keep them fed with real scraps or our WormFuel SuperBlend and they will multiply on their own.
