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Commercial Vermiculture: How to Build a Thriving Business in Redworms

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I bought this book because I live in a city, have a moderate size backyard and know without a doubt that I can join the ranks of hundreds of other worm growers around the US by growing worms and selling them on a monthly basis. I have just started my worm farm and have found every page of this book invaluable.

Peter Bogdanov is the president of VermiCo which is the leader in earthworm information and technology. His book is one of the best on the market today for anyone who would like to understand how they, with a minimal investment, can start their own profitable worm farm in the city, the suburbs or in a rural area.

Peter's book literally takes you by the hand... He explains commercial vermiculture (raising worms for profit) and gives you a clear picture as to where it started, where it is today and where it's going. The last part really excited me - where worm farming is going is so incredible.

The next section is devoted to answering every question most worm raising nubies ask. I sense that these questions and answers come directly from Peter's willingness to educate the public for the last twenty years. Incidentally, I'm going to one of his internationally famous seminars in October 2000 where he brings the top people in the industry together for a long information packed two days.

The next section details how to get started. These details are split up for the hobbyist, medium size farmer or for the person who wants to go for the gold and be a large scale worm farmer.

Following this comes great instructions on monitoring conditions in your worm beds. This is invaluable since many folks think you can do this by just tossing a few worms in a box and seeing what happens. Worm farming is ALMOST that easy but to be successful you have to know a little more than that!

Next come details on all the different ways you can feed your worms and also eliminate and worries about pests and predators (not a big problem for most folks).

Following this comes instructions on harvesting, (all the different ways to get your worms out of their worm bin) packaging and shipping, (how to avoid things like having 40 pounds of soggy worms let loose in the back of your UPS driver's truck) .

Peter then gives a really decent explanation of castings (worm poop) that drives home the point that you can profit in so many different ways from raising worms.

The book finishes up with a summary overview of worms yesterday, today and tomorrow, how one can basically guarantee their success and additional ways to profit from this fun and lucrative business.

While brief and concise, this book is NOT shallow, not necessarily JUST for the nubie and as far as I am concerned worth every penny. If you are just getting started or if you are already keeping worms and want to move into the commercial direction than this book really might be for you.

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One thing kind of floored me - there are very few books available on Amazon regarding worms at this time. However, there are MANY excellent books out there - MANY! You will find a number of additional titles in Peter's catalogue and I recommend reading as many sources of information as you can because like anything in life, every expert finds their unique way to "skin a cat". I know Peter would encourage you to read widely as well, so start with his book, get on his mailing list and go for it!

This book was written and published almost 50 years ago. However, even though there may be some more up to date information in other publications, this book contains insight that is timeless. Direct and to the point, I believe anyone considering hoping to make a profit raising earthworms should make this the first book they read on the subject.

I thought it would be more technical, it's an ok introduction to vermiculture.

a book by a worm raiser for his own profit, thou i thought it would be good, he had a lot of references to himself, thou the phone#s have been disconnected because he no longer wants to be bothered by smaller customers unless you basically give your product (worms) away for free while he makes all the profit, not reccomended at all.

RIP OFF. DO NOT BUY!
I am upset that the picture and description for this book are misleading, and GREATLY OVERPRICED, for a home-made plastic coil binding. The description does not accurately describe this as a 50 pg xerox copy with cheap plastic coil binding for $25 (much more than a real bound book), nor does the title for the false representation in the picture tell that it is ONLY a picture of the COVER (minus the pages and binding), and is not a picture of the ACTUAL BOOK in selling condition, probably for fear that the buyer would have a fair chance to see what they are actually wasting their money on. I am GREATLY dissapointed in this buyers shady selling technique!

If this is not the sellers fault and is the fault of the book creator I will gladly take down my poor review but my common sense tells me the seller is responsible for the accuracy of the product they are advertising!

This product arrived exactly how it was listed. It took a while to get to me though. Usually 10-14 days isn't really 10-14 days... this one was. Guess that was the post office maybe...?