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I know, some of you out there are laughing just reading the title of this blog.  I don’t blame you at all.  In fact, had I not raised worms myself, I wouldn’t have believed that one could train worms either.  After all, they aren’t even remotely close to being as smart as a dog.  Or are they?

If you’re wondering how to train worms for your worm farm, this is rather simple.  This method is used by people who are using or selling the worm castings or “worm poo.”  In this scenario, you want to keep the worms because they are creating what you want to sell.  Keeping the worms is important- but how can you easily separate the castings from the worms, without going through the dirt with your hands?  The answer is simply to train your worms to leave their old dirt in favor of newer surroundings.

The steps for doing this are as follows:

1. Keep track of the worm bedding.  Once it has been used up, it is time to train your worms to leave their old homes.  Worms cannot survive in dirt full of their own waste for very long.
2. A week or so before you want to collecting the dirt, start feeding your worms at one end of the container.
3. Once you have gotten them used to hanging out in one end of the container, remove about two-thirds of the dirt from the other end.
4. Now remove the trained worms and their old dirt and set aside while you clean out their container and prepare it for the next round.  Follow the steps outlined in my last post, How to Start a Worm Farm for preparing their bedding and feeding them.
5. You’re off and running with another round of worm farming!

So, as you can tell, worms can be trained to do things for you, just like Fido.  Not surprisingly, it can be done the same way - with their favorite food!

~~Charlotte

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