He also sells compost tea, worm castings and mulch, and offers classes on composting with worms. People can buy whole compost bins or smaller boxes housing about 1,000 worms each. “Our idea here is to create a complete cycle: It’s to have fruits and vegetables that feed us and feed the animals and then animals that feed the fruit and vegetables.”īrooks currently sells about 30,000 to 40,000 worms a week. “Worms let us convert garbage into food for our chickens and food for ourselves,” Brooks explains. When these worms eat and digest compost, they excrete the nutrient-rich fertilizer known as “worm castings” or “vermicast.” The worms really are magnificent little animals that turn garbage into a really, really high-quality fertilizer.”Īrizona Worm Farm is home to millions of red wigglers, a type of earthworm well known for its ability to quickly break down organic food waste. “That was really the origin of the worms. “The quest was to figure out how to take other people’s garbage and turn it into food, how to take something we have way too much of and turn it into something useful for us,” Brooks says. The bulk of the operation, though, is about transforming compostable waste into a rich soil for those plants and animals. They built greenhouses for a variety of vegetables, planted dozens of citrus trees and welcomed several dozen chickens. On 10 acres in south Phoenix, he and a few employees established Arizona Worm Farm. As Zach Brooks of Phoenix learned more and more about sustainability, he envisioned a challenge for himself: “Could I take 10 acres of land and grow enough food for 10 families?”
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