For Stubblefield, worms are amazing organisms. The worms are the natural pumpers of the good fertilizers, and he says good fertilizer goes a long way. 'And what we’re finding in these castings is huge huge levels of microbial life.” “The worms are basically turning that organic matter, be it food, long waste, different types of paper and carbon waste, they’re taking it through their tube system, breaking it down into these castings,' said Stubblefield. It’s the worms’ poop that’s highly coveted. “Behind, they’re going to be leaving us that rich compost we’re looking to harvest a couple times a season here,” Stubblefield said. The food scraps, cardboard boxes, and other compostable items are given to the worms to eat. The process starts with food waste from local restaurants that partner with the company. He teamed up with his best friend John Tarrant to start his business Buffalo Worm Works. “I was just at a point where I had a lot of waste coming from another commercial business that we were working with, and I wanted to know ways that we could really reduce that waste and have a better impact on the soil and the environment around us,” said Stubblefield. He puts the worms on his worm farm to work, tackling waste. Now he has more than 100,000 pounds of worms. He started with about 1,000 worms, buying them online and collecting them from his backyard. Myles Stubblefield has too many worms to name.

One local man is putting worms to the task of doing just that. But did you know worms can play a part in the process?

You may have seen bins meant for composting, the process of recycling organic matter into fertilizer for soil and plants.

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