About Our Business
We sell Composting Worms, 2 breeds, one is the Red Wiggler and the other is The European Nightcrawler. We ship worms all over Canada, In Canada the worms are shipped via Canada Post. We have never lost a shipment yet, it being said (worms never died in shipment or lost in the mail)
Please check out our Products page we have more then just Worms
OUR PRODUCTS
We also have a system setup for USA customers. I can DROP SHIP anywhere in the US. (except Hawaii) I am presently working on the USA ordering page, For now, anyone in the US can email me @ Jeff@FriendlyWormGuy.com and I will be happy to give you prices and shipping cost. (prices are some what less then my Canadian prices)
Here is a little about how we started (enjoy)
Originally, We were more interested in selling the worms to fisherman and stores in our area only.
We later decided on using European Nightcrawlers as they would not require refridgeration. Making raising alot less difficult and handy for the fisherman to keep alive while out fishing. Although, with worms comes cleaning the beds and why waste good natural fertilizer castings (worm poop). Also, we needed to keep our egg capsules for reproduction of our worms. Two good reasons to figure out how we would affordably seperate them from the worms to start our business. Won’t say everything we first tried, too long a story and too funny.
Finally, we decided to use a grain cleanner (fanning mill) built in 1913, by Young brothers in Almonte Ontario. The grain cleaner we last purchased is equipped with an electric motor. This makes the work load much lighter. It is the grain cleaner in the picture on the right. It is a “New” Chatham Mill. Ha, ha, new 75 years ago, maybe. Some of you farmers out there will know what we are talking about. Anyway, we were hoping very much that we could at least seperate the castings from the worms and the eggs. You can imagine how excited we were when we seen it work and it seperated all three. We jumped up and down and said “Wow”. Then I wondered if we were the only ones who would ever be excited for us and “are we ever going to make any money off this stuff”. Well you can’t say we aren’t trying!
It is now 4 years later, we started off with our advertising with the “Around and About” Newspaper from the neighboring town which also reaches our own hometown of Massey, reaching 6000 homes. Jeff wrote in it facts about castings ,worms and recycling with worms on 5 different occasions. We also had a really nice write up done about our business in the “Mid North Monitor” Newspaper. The article was written by Rosalind Raby. That article is on our site if you would like to read that as well. We also went to a show and discussion as the guest speakers in Espanola with the Horticultural society there. That went well and we were treated very kindly by the wonderful people that attended. Also, we appreciated some great tips by some very avid gardeners who have splendid looking yards. Which ,by the way we hope to some day make our yard look at least half as nice as there beautiful home gardens.
We went to the horticultral garden expo in Espanola and sold products and showed our worm bin and educated more of the public. We would really like to thank Michael Dunn, President of the Espanola Horticultral Society, for this very successful day for us. As this is the place we met Rosalind Raby, and had that great article done on us. We now have went to several schools to show students the worm bins, how to recycle with worms and spoke about how castings (worm poop)can enhance soils to make plants grow better. The students had alot more enthusiasum than I had first antisipated. An excitement of interest in the classes fill the atmosphere. Most students had wanted to dig their hands in and check out the worms. Also, a handful of students in each class who were a little more squimmish, but enjoyed it just the same. Our goals with the schools is to make science and learning even more fun. We will promote recycling and vermicomposting within the schools. It will give even more education and interest to our next generation of people.This will be a part of making this world a little more “GREEN”. Every little bit from each person helps.
Our goal as well is trying to educate about recycling and all natural fertilizers to the rest of the public. That is our start in a “GREENER” world. Our family is not totally “GREEN” yet. We hope to expand our business more. If it comes to be, we would like to go further with adding in our own energy system which would be wind and or solar powered. Small steps at a time. Every effort in trying to make our lives more “GREENER” is better than not trying at all. Every little bit counts. Everything starts with small first steps. If we continue to stay small we hope to at least be a player in doing something that helps in any way to make our earth that much more a “GREENER” place for future generations. As we too have children growing into that next era! There is an interest out there in all ages ,we have seen it. Reaching people one on one will make the world of a difference. At least it is a start. People today are very conciencious of our health and fast changing life styles. There are some things the common public cannot change easily but yet there are some things in which we can always change. There are alot of people who make up this great world and if everyone (or even just half of us) gets involved in things, together the possibilities are endless.
Lorie and Jeff Sonnenburg
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Jeff
roberta
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#1. January 4th, 2008, at 7:35 PM.
could you post some pictures of the results of the grain separator
that is worms separated from compost spearated from coccoons?
how did you manage to think of using such a machine?