The history of worm farming is wild! Worm farming, or vermiculture, as we know it to day is a pretty recent invention. But long before Mary Appelhof taught us how to use worms to eat our garbage, ancient people were well aware of the benefits of earthworms. Cleopatra is even rumored to have banned the export of worms on threat of execution. Charles Darwin was super into worms, spending years observing them. Modern style worm farming came about in the early 1970s. A really crazy thing happened with worm farming - it became a beacon of opportunity for scammers and grifters. Which is pretty nuts! I'll tell you the story of Greg Bradley and the B&B Worm Farm scam. After all these crazy years of scams worm farming has now found its stride. You can get any kind of worm farming system you can dream of. There are even some large-scale worm farming operations dealing with thousands of tons of organic waste every year. You can check out MyNoke to see a good example of a large-scale worm farm.
00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Ancient Worm Farming
01:21 - Worm Farming in The Industrial Revolution
03:28 - The Rise of Modern Worm Farming
05:20 - Worm Farm Scams
10:58 - The Future of Worm Farming
