Just want to get some feedback on starting a worm farm. All the info on the web says just get a box put dirt, worms and table scraps, and POOF you got worms. I did see that you can buy 500 large Canadain nightcrawlers online for 50.00 buck with no shipping. That sound pretty darn good. So anyone out there built a worm farm that has pros/cons worth the hassel and whatnot.
I don’t farm them but every spring I set up worm boxes in the basement. Large styrofoam coolers full of worm bedding. I pick them up at night or on hot days I lay the garden hose in the backyard and pick them up. I use the boxes for holding them, they will live all year with proper care. I would suggest you do something similar if you buy crawlers in bulk.
Do you feed them through out the year to keep them alive and well?
I do the same thing as Kevin22. Pick them on a rainy night and throw them in a cooler with some “buss-bedding”. No need to feed them, they eat the bedding. They will last through the year and probably longer if stored in a cool place. Don’t put any broken crawlers in with the mix and you will be golden. 
Yeah.
what temp is considered cool?
Crawlers, in my opinion, are worth it!
Are you going to call it “got worms” 
I laugh at myself.
In one night I can pull 150+ out of the ground by myself. But anyone can do that. But if you are selling them, I just got worm bedding at Walmart for 2$ maybe and never ever this past year did I have to stop to get crawlers.
Canadian crawlers…. Are they much different than the American ones?
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Canadian crawlers…. Are they much different than the American ones?
Basically the same, some have a little bit of an accent… 
You left the door open on that one Coley! 
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Canadian crawlers…. Are they much different than the American ones?
Basically the same, some have a little bit of an accent…
Generally speaking they are a little HEALTHIER then American Crawlers.
I remember picking those nightcrawlers over in my Grandparents yard in that good old north Minneapolis soil and after a rain and at night uffta watch out it seemed the yard was crawling. Those who have it do not take it for granted bc my house here in Brooklyn Center is a half acre of pure sand. Nothing comes out the ground and it sucks. You can flood the yard for 2 hrs and maybe get one mini worm. 
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what temp is considered cool?
Less than 60ยบ at all times.
Being in Robinsdale I would bet you are raising them in your yard all ready. When i lived in North MPLS they where always thick in the yard and ready to go at anytime. Even a 90 degree mid day drop a hose on the ground. 15 minutes later start picking. No need to wait until dark. Fresh crawlers all the time.
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Being in Robinsdale I would bet you are raising them in your yard all ready.
Depends where. I am as close to Robbinsdale as you can get, and with the “soil” in my yard (it is literally sand), it is pretty much devoid of crawlers, despite my efforts to seed them.
All sand at my current location in Ham Lake to. Drop a crawler on the ground and it shrinks to worm size in a hurry.
Didnt realize there was sand down there. The MPLS side of Robinsdale was dirt and full of crawlers. My uncles place in Golden Valley was dirt and loaded with them to. Would bet anything around the lakes there or creeks would be dirt and full of crawlers again. Sure do miss just being able to grab a few out of the yard any time I wanted to go fishing. On the warm spring nights you could sit on the porch and listen to them slither they way around in the leaves under the front bushes. Well that was between gun shots going off anyways. 
I left that door open on purpose 
I remember as a young mini coleycrawler, waking up early with my dad to grab crawlers in the yard. Good memories. I remember a specific time I said ” dad why are they stuck together like that?”
He replied probably not knowing what else to say but “they’re making babies” (in Canadian = avoir des relations sexuelles )
Get a crawler farm!!
Thats funny. A lot a person can learn about life from night crawlers.
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Didnt realize there was sand down there.
West of 100 and north of 42nd…our yard is a sandbox. It can rain an inch and my yard will be dry the next day!
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