Fishing Worms

• A worm farm is the perfect way for a fisherman to have bait worms on hand any time they are needed. By raising her own worms, a person who likes to fish using natural bait is able to avoid having to go out and dig for worms or to buy them. The fisherman is able to choose from a range of sizes, since all established worm farms have very small worms and large, mature ones.
  
  

Making Compost

• Gardeners put worm farms to use as compost factories. The worms can be fed almost anything, and they will chew through the food and bedding in their home, turning it into castings -- worm droppings -- an excellent source of nutrients for plants. Worm castings can be added directly to indoor or outdoor plants to boost foliage and blooming.
  
  

Recycling

• The worms in a worm farm make excellent garbage disposals, chewing through their own weight in kitchen or garden scraps every day. A properly cared for worm farm is clean and odor free, and can be kept in the kitchen to be used to recycle food scraps instead of throwing garbage away. Worms will recycle all kinds of vegetable and grain scraps as well as coffee filters and grounds, tea bags and old newspapers, reducing the burden on landfills.
  
  

Extra Income

• Both the worms and the finished castings from a worm farm can be sold for extra income. It generally takes the worms about three months to completely convert a bin full of bedding into castings. These can then be sold at local farmer's markets or other outlets as organic fertilizer. Surplus worms, too, are sold to various markets. One outlet is other people who would like to start their own worm farms. They are also needed in pet shops to be used to feed large fish, reptiles and birds or sold to bait shops or directly to fishermen to be used as bait.