ialbtc=It All Leads Back To Compost?

Are you trying to say that it is just as good to compost without worms?

No. Not exactly, What I am saying is you can get your compost worms in the wild and they will be the worms you want, the worms you'll need, the worms that WILL work just like "store bought".
I've never bought worms, they just showed up when I first started composting stuff and they've never really left, sometimes when I ignore them, they ignore me (and they hide)but when I poke and wettem and fluff em, they show up.
If I go looking in my yard, I find em, out around in the woods around where I live, I can find em, so all I am saying is put a lil "homemade" craftsman doityourselfer, Ididitmyselfer in your vermicomposting. They ARE out there and you can find em for free.
Just another reason why =IALBTC

Yes that's all true if you have a working compost pile or manure heap. Some people don't live near the woods. When someone first starts out in vermicomposting they may not have any of that as an advantage.

Now that I have been vermicomposting for over the year, I have enough compostable materials collected to draw composting worms.

I went to the nearby rain forest with LOTS of leaf litter and spent over an hour turning the leaf litter over and hunting for worms in 4 different places. I found 3 worms. I'm now working on increasing that number, but it's going to be a while! In the mean time, the worms I purchased are doing all the work. Any thoughts on how to improve the odds of finding worms? (I'm in a condo, no chance to start an outdoor compost pile.)

Take a piece of melon rind and card board w/ you. Leave the melon on the ground, cover it w/ cardboard, cover all that w/ leaves and come back in a day or two.

It'll depend on your area. The red wigglers are not native to North America (or Hawaii) and while they can be found just about everywhere, they may not be present in large numbers in your area.

I have recommended worm rustling several times on this forum and I think the melon rind idea is excellent.

I live in Ontario, and a couple months ago,went scrounging through 3 horse manure piles and then a cow manure pile at a different farm looking for some worms to increase my herd.

All I was able to find were 1/2 dozen Canadian Night Crawlers, or dew-worms. I'd like to try it again, at yet a different farm, but it's a lot easier to buy them......

We don't have red wigglers in Hawaii, but we do have perionyx excavatus (Indian Blues), which are an excellent composting worm. We don't have too much fresh water fishing anyway, so bait worms aren't an issue. The PEs are invasive but they've been here for well over 100 years, so they're an established species. I'll try the melon rind and cardboard trick, it's sounds promising. My PEs certainly like melon rind!

I mentioned I had found 3 worms in the wild and was keeping them to see if they'd breed well. I realized yesterday I'd let them dry out too much and now only have the one biggest one. Hopefully there are some cocoons that will hatch now that it's moist again. There's a line between not disturbing them too much and neglect which I clearly passed!

The OP is stuff of genius. Worms for free, whodathunkit?

I found a ton of worms in a horse farm about 20 minutes away from my house (I live in Northern VA). I called up the owner, explained my needs, and he let me dig in his ENORMOUS horse manure pile (this pile had to be at least two stories high). I recommend digging in aged horse manure, the newer don't really have that many worms in them. The ones I found all had little yellow tails.

I'd reckon you can also find worms through other fellow vermicomposters who could offer them to you for free or for a very very cheap price.

Such as this site: http://vermicomposters.com/