not a lucrative market, but you can always find folks who'll pay pennies - the main problem with it is you have to produce huge amounts to see any return, and it'll be a small return if you figure what you've spent and the time involved

Bill

Thank you for the reply Bill. I believe You're correct, I found a post by doing a search on here to find one woman who was selling them at a farmers market. She didn't say what she got for them though.

We have a small town hardware store that sold some last summer (black Gold) that they got from some big organic supplier. I think it was $4.95 for a 5# bag, I could be wrong about the price. I believe one must make a market through educating perspective buying on the qualities of warm castings.

There is a big time operation in Portland OR set up mainly to reduce landfill size that sells or give them to Fred Meyer stores, they mix it with other compost for sale.

Also, I found an Ebay listing for somebody who had 30 totes full of castings at pennies a pound...so it seems the right location and marketing ability would be the key.

Travis Weedman

I have purchased worm castings from a nursery for $29.00 for 25 lb bag. I think there is a market, but it is expensive to buy. You could call some nurseries and see if they have any for sale and get a good market value on them. The quality of worm castings I bought was very good and you could tell it was from worms. It was like small curled up castings and many tiny dirt granules where the castings had broken up. but was not like dirt, it was tiny little jelly beans. The soil was sealed in snall like eggs of dirt. anyway, just like I've seen in my worm bins on the top of the soil once the worms have been in there eating for months on end. You could probably sale them to a company called Peaceful Valley Farms in Grass Valley, Calif. I purchase stuff from them as they sale only organic fertalizers and organic products. They ship around the country. They will sale by the truck load from their suppliers if you farm big time. I have 25 fruit trees and a large garden and I have 10 compost bins with redwormns and two worm bins, one wood and one plastic and another larger plastic one that I plan to expand as I started with large fishing redworms in the plastic bin and really like the large size so I am trying to multiply them. I will never have enough worm castings for my garden. Never enough compost and humus either. So I think there is a market out there with organic people ( ORGANIC PEOPLE?) well you know what I mean. You need to dry the castings for shipping to keep the cost low on wieght. I would buy many pounds if I got 50 lbs for $10.00? Let me know when you have some for sale. BIll C. Thanks, Northern Calif.