made a mistake/a new hope

[Alan]

so I made a novice boo-boo that I should have known better about, it seems I overfed chicken egg-maker and mixed it into a couple of beds too early, it heated up and I lost a number of worms (a few lbs), luckily today the beds cooled down (I had already rescued several lbs of worms that were clinging to the walls of the bins when they were hot) and I had a chance to harves the usable casting from them, add new bedding and lime and re-seed the beds with new worms and eggs.

The good news in all of this is that now, finally after about a year, I think I damn near have a system down as far as bed set up, feeding, harvesting, getting numbers and size up, packaging them for bait, harvesting castings, and keeping the beds cool in what was originally intended to be a greenhouse.

Now for the next step, marketing. You see, this year I didn't really try to push selling the worms, just a few at the local gas station and whatever people came to the house to buy, maybe 600 cups all year would be my guess, but starting next spring, I'm going to hit every bait shop in at least a 60 mile radius. Luckilly some of these folks have found me, just yesterday a woman called me wanting 20 cups of worms for her bait shop, she was willing to pay $2.00 a cup for them too! That's pretty good money, then today I had a gas station and a bait shop call with the posibility of wanting 30 cups each on Monday afternoon for trial and if they like them then at least 60 cups a week every week starting in march-nov. next year. It seems that the local bait wholesaler has missed too many appointments this year and maybe I might be picking up his business! Let's hope it keeps up, I feel now and spring is the time to get in and to speak with these bait shops and get the ball rolling, wish me luck!
-Alan