Frank LaBounty has found market niche selling red wrigglers and fertilizer castings
Now in his fourth year selling red wigglers worms and their castings, LaBounty is a regular vendor at the Prince George Farmer’s Market and his Frank’s Happy Worms business has taken off.
“I used to do it as a kid, for fishing worms,” said LaBounty,” who grew up on a farm in Hixon. “My granddaughter was four years old and her and I started collecting worms but they didn’t want to live, so I went online and found these red wigglers that are a lot better. I bought 500 of those, half a pound, from a woman in Vanderhoof, and it took off from there.”
LaBounty feeds them kitchen scraps such as vegetable and fruit peelings, egg cartons, cardboard and newsprint. “I’ve got one bin where I put a bunch of worm casting two years ago and it just grows amazing every year. I’ve done tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers and things like that. I sell to a lot of women my age and once they buy one bag it makes such a difference and within a week they’re back buying more.”For fishing, he’ll sell 12 or 18 worms for $5.
“Fishermen are being disappointed with the they buy from the gas station because they go out to the lake and they find they’re half dead. Mine, you just keep them in a bucket of dirt and they’re fine, but the dew worms you have to keep them colder.”
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