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When I first moved here, To this part of the state
every house, like 20 Years ago Every house in every neighborhood
Had a little, small garden plot Everybody had a few tomatoes
Grew some squash and stuff And then over the years, you notice
all those backyards garden disappeared well now, everybody is tilling land and
planting again, and they’ve got this new awareness
Early Bird started out as Early Bird worm farms
We’ve kinda grown into just farms now Because we do a lot more than the worms
But primarily our business is generating Worm castings and worms for the
composting and the fishing industry I started the farm with an idea
I got a plywood box and 4,400 worms That I had bought on the internet
And I figured if I could do something different Than what I was already doing, I
could spend more time at home Worms are probably the most beneficial
thing that plants can have around them unlike man made fertilizers which
can burn or take a long time for the plant to uptake
the worms actually aerate the soil allowing moisture to the roots and oxygen to the roots
and their waste, vermicastings, is the richest, most organic fertilizer known to man
it's exactly what God intended your plants to eat
so, it's a very prized substance and it causes growth rates of say three times the normal
growth rate on a plant without worm castings and the yields usually produces about twice
the yield so, the worms are very beneficial for the
plants and very necessary
Fisherman, they like the big worms and people that are looking to start home composters
add worms to their garden soil, they're preferring the smaller composting type worms so,
really it's two different markets you have people buying them to fish
and you have people buying them for gardening soil
One good thing about everything that we do here
is it's local, and local food, local products, it's
not a myth, and it's gonna have to be more and more
with the price of fossil fuels going up and the big, huge carbon footprints that just
a single tomato brings to your table, local food is gonna become so important
we're on the verge of I believe, either find it local
or find it from a foreign country less and less can you find that's made in
America now it's less and less can you find that's
actually grown in America People need to start seeking out all of their
little local venues, you know support a local restaurant, support
a local restaurant that supports a local farmer there's a lot of things people can do
to keep things local Public awareness on local farms and
more back to basics type stuff is really peaking here, especially here
in the Upstate because we've got some unique things to see.