Their voracious appetite for decaying matter table scraps, hog and cow manure make them nature s smallest recycling center. The wax worm, the Canadian night crawler and the butter worm are all good for reeling in bass or trout. For lizards, frogs and turtles, worms are a healthy snack. Given all that the worm can do, people have been calling Sherman-Huntoon with grandiose ideas such as setting the worms loose on hog farms to solve a waste problem in North Carolina. Other people call Sherman-Huntoon with the idea that they are going to save the earth.
Farmers call because they want to diversify.
And then there are some, who simply think there s a serious amount of scratch to be made off of worm farming. Sherman-Huntoon likes to talk them down off that ledge, she said. Nonetheless, it s still a risky business venture, she said. These are living organisms, she said. You really have to stay on top of it.