My 2¢: I suspect there are issues w/ waste management of scale. To haul organic waste to a site, sort out the material, then feed the worms you would need a large storage lot since the worms themselves aren't very fast to churn through the waste. The intake and output will be a challenge to synchronize. Furthermore the cold weather would require heat and protection from the elements to keep the worms happy. Finding such a facility that is appropriately zoned and economically feasible would be biggest challenge to tackle 1st. Perhaps some partnership can be gained with a farm (providing the ready acreage) which has its own manure source to be combined with vegetation scraps. You bring the worms supplemented with other organic waste and voilà...

I think it's a good idea, though I don't know how you'll make it a profitable business. I recall there is or was a guy in Boston (or maybe only Brookline) who collected organic waste from houses on his bicycle-towed cart. I don't know if people were paying for him to take their waste, or they got a bucket of good compost in return, or what, but someone I stayed with used to do it. You'd get a lot more food waste from restaurants and cafes than from houses.

"starting a worm business"

Can you explain what you mean by that? Will you be selling the worms, selling their castings or both?

When starting a business there are various items to consider seriously before delving very far into the nuts and bolts. And at top of the list is identifying what your market is......or if you even have one. And how you will access that market - direct sales, online sales, via some other retail outlet, etc. And of course there are all the other little essential details, like if your property is zoned for this sort of activity, a business license, a business name, yada, yada, yada.

IMO, collecting and dealing with the household or business vegetative waste is the least of your worries until you have fleshed out a proper business plan. And I have to ask, have you ever done any vermicomposting?

Seems like I'm a bit in over my head. I think I'll just stick to small scale vermicomposting for now. To answer your question I have vermicomposted in the past. My first attempt was a failure. I don't know how it happened, but somehow there was too much moisture in the bin and the worms drowned. I wanted to try to start vermicomposting again, and I plan to use MUCH MUCH MUCH less water this time around. I thought that eventually once the worms began to multiply I could start farming them on a larger scale (but this obviously wouldn't be for several years).

Good decision.

When I made this thread last night it was an IDEA, and nothing more than that. I wasn't seriously considering anything. It seems this is too ambitious even for someone with lots of experience with vermicomposting.

i think the idea is good. The logistics have to be worked out. We all want to dream big and live by the things that inspired us.

" I wasn't seriously considering anything"

People have been doing that increasingly more often on houzz forums but you are the first I've seen come back to twist the knife.