Well not exactly - what you'll have is some very dense vermicompost. Pure castings can typically only be obtained at the expense of all the worms in the environment (where the worms reprocess every scrap of residual organic material (including their own waste until finally they to become part of the mix).
Each to his/her own, but for what it's worth, I dunno if I'd bother with a flow through system outdoors - I tend to just use heap/windrows.

Abbeysdad,

Thanks for reply. I am sort of casually interested in vermiculture. I love hobby gardening and composting.

I do buy fishing worms occasionally. I asked at three places last year, where they get there worms/ where the worms were grown. Canada, and I live in Georgia...

B

That's because most bait shops sell NANC's (North American Night Crawlers) and most of these are 'hervested' and imported from Canada. There is some debate over raising these night crawlers - some say you can while others insist they are deep, soil dwelling worms that won't do well in shallow beds typically used for composting redworms.
These worms are most often picked in the wild and a good worm picker can earn $300-$400 a night picking worms. That's about $75-$100 dollars an hour which is pretty good money.

Redworms for composting are available from many, many vendors and you can find these with a simple google and select one that's close to you. You might also consider those african or georgian night crallers I see advertized as those night crawlwers from Canada will likely NOT do well in your yard/garden.

So, are they fiddlin' those worms up in Canada? I always thought that was a myth, like Cow Tippin'. I have since read that worms do not like vibration. I remember a story from a friend, he set a running chainsaw on the ground and produced worms.

I'm going to build the little bin I described above as an experiment. I guess the most important thing I've learned is to keep it shady and cool. Summer temps here in 6b might be a problem. I expect the worms to retreat to the ground at that point.

A lot of the fishing I do is for trout, red-eye bass, blue-gill. Redworms are great for that. However, I do remember reading about a guy who raised night-crawlers for catfishin' in Tennessee. I can't remember how he raised them but he said he produced a lot, they were using several gallons of worms in one night.

This sure is an interesting forum. I look forward to posting pics this spring and summer.

bubba

The information I had was they were 'pickers' - you know go out at night after a rain with a flashlight. I dunno about vibration. I did hear of a method once using a DC battery - drive two rods into the ground several feet apart, then connect to the terminals and the worms just pop out of the ground (I've never tried it).

It's called grunting. There's a cool video I saw, I will have to find it and get it posted. It's really interesting.

Here is a link that might be useful: Vermies Inc

Grunting Video as promised- just delayed.

Here is a link that might be useful: Worm Grunting Video

Utah,
That was a cool video, like the site too.
thanks!

Thanks For posting that UTAH very interesting.