Busy Weekend With no End in Sight!

We've got about 500 lbs of castings to deliver on Wednesday. One customer wants 300 lbs and we have two stores in SLC that are wanting to put our Worm Castings on their shelves. Chuck's worked long and hard to convince them to try it, but it took a few people actually going into the store looking for our Worm Castings to convince the store owners to carry our product.

Chuck and Makiya along with a boy from here in town have been busy screening castings. We are in the process of getting a new harvester, so they've had to screen everything by hand 2x's. It's been quite a project with me having to bake castings all day yesterday and today and I still have about 50 lbs to bake tomorrow. We bake them for about 15 minutes to kill any worms or other little creepy crawly things so people don't open their containers and find bugs crawling around. They won't hurt your plants, but people usually get a little nervous finding bugs in their castings.

Well it's getting late and our little guy is finally tired (he took a long nap today), so it's finally time for bed! Yeah!

Shhhh it's a secret for now

but we have decided to lower the prices of our Worm Castings this summer . . .well, starting soon. We now produce enough that cost wise we can afford to sell them cheaper . .which will help our customers grow fantastic gardens this summer at an even more affordable price. Watch for the "real" announcement soon.

Natural Resource Festival

The Natural Resource Festival this year was a success. Lots of people came through and learned a lot about Vermicomposting. This first picture is of Chuck and our booth.
Here's the view along one of the walls across the arena from us. The last two years the event has been held at the Sevier Valley Center on the mezanine. On the floor is a Home and Garden show going on at the same time. There is also an art show going on at the same time. It's nice that they've moved it all into one building.

Our kids had a blast too. We hung out there Thursday after school and then again on Saturday. The pictures are all from Saturday.

This contraption spins around, sideways, upside down etc. Shayla was pretty freaked out and lasted all of about 2 minutes. None of my other kids would even attempt it.

This next picture is courtesy of Capitol Reef National Park's booth.

The Hoogle Zoo booth this year had a King Snake and this Tortoise. Joshua absolutely loved hanging out with the Tortoise. At one point he and Shayla went out and picked danilions to feed it. He loved them.

Chuck is always looking for funny hats. He bought this one from Oriental Trading. It's a hamburger! Cool huh.

This was a fun booth. The fire is fake, but looked so real.

There was a petting zoo this year (if you can call two llamas, a pony a few goats and a couple of rabbits a pettying zoo). In this picture you can see one of the baby goats along with a full grown rabbit. That baby goats was the size of the rabbit. The babies were so dang cute! The mom and dad goats were only about 18-20 inches tall! I want one.

Here are a couple of the baby goats.

Here is Joshua petting the shetland pony. He had a lot of fun at the petting zoo.

Here is the last picture of the festival. At the end someone at another booth was taking the number off the wall and stuck it on Joshua. Then a whole bunch of other people started doing the same thing. He looked so funny walking around with all the numbers on him.


Well, that was the festival for 2009. It had a great turn out and we had a wonderful time.

Recycle Utah

Chuck will be doing a seminar at Recycle Utah in Park City on Tuesday evening 6:00 pm. Email us if you are interested in attending : rottenapplewormfarm@yahoo.com

New Look

Hey readers . . . I've changed the look of our official website. Check it out at www.rottenapplewormfarm.com

We've changed the look of our business cards, brochures and labels and thought it would be nice to update our website to the same color scheme.

So Sorry . . .

Wow, I just realized it's been 2 weeks since I last blogged here. We've started getting a few seminar/classes on our schedule for spring! The first one will be at Recycle Utah in Park City the 2nd week of April (they don't have the date set yet) and the second one is the Natural Resource Fair here in Richfield. This is attened by a LOT of students, but it is also opened to the general public. That will be held April 23-25 at the Sevier Valley Center (I think, that is where it was last year). This is always a lot of fun and has a lot of information about all sorts of topics. My girls love going to it each year.

Chuck is also planning on being at the Salt Lake City Farmer's Market each Saturday this summer.

We have still been busy with this last harvest. We just about have everything done for the ton of castings being sent to Idaho in March, and now we are busy getting worm beds fed, and filled, so that in May we can harvest again so there is product for the Market this summer. We've already had a lot of people calling to make sure we'll be there! It's alot of fun watching this little business grow as more and more people learn what a wonderful product worm castings are.

Sorry, no pictures this time.

Career Day at the Middle School

Yesterday Chuck spent a couple of hours at the middle school talking about our worm farm. Here's a video and photo.