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January 12 and 13, 2023

Phoenix, Arizona

At the Arizona Worm Farm

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January 12 and 13, 2023

Phoenix, Arizona

At the Arizona Worm Farm

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About The conference

Growth and Opportunity

Considering the Worm Breeding or Worm Composting business? This conference is for you.  You will get coaching, hands on training, and business advice and recommendations from leading experts in the US Worm Farming community  Learn about starting a worm farm, worm farm for profit, starting a worm farm business.

Hands On!

See successful worm breeding in operation.  Watch worm castings production using wedge and CFW processes.  See screening, bagging, and mixing in both low and medium volume environments.  We will be demonstrating Jet, Worm Sh*fter, and UNCO screens - determine which is best for your operations. We have baggers, screens, and loaders all in operation for you to watch and evaluate.

Plus! you will get the opportunity to actually do it!  On day two of the conference, we will split into groups where you can work with breeding, castings, tea, and composting process HANDS ON.  Actual training in how each process works.

Registration

Conference fees are:


 $700 First Participant

$600 Second Participant (same Organization)

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT $100 OFF until November 1st


Registration fees includes conference materials,  breakfast and lunch on both days of the conference, and all speakers and training sessions.

Link to register is below.

Caution: The internet is Wrong!

If you believe those web pages that say you can make $100,000 a year in the worm business working part-time with no investment, we are going to try to dissuade you of that notion.  The worm business is hard work and takes investment in space, machines, and marketing to make it viable.  We will teach you what it takes - but if you are coming to learn to breed worms with no investment - we suggest you not come.

Our Speakers

Heather Rinaldi, Texas Worm Ranch

Heather Rinaldi, Texas Worm Ranch

Heather Rinaldi, Texas Worm Ranch

 Heather has over 14 years of professional worm composting experience and is a National Speaker on Vermicomposting, Composting, Regenerative Agriculture, Gardening, Soil Health, and Wellness. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyDdGPCM6s4&t=24s

Zach Brooks, Arizona Worm Farm

Heather Rinaldi, Texas Worm Ranch

Heather Rinaldi, Texas Worm Ranch

Zach is the owner and manager of the Arizona Worm Farm, our host for this conference.  Zach has developed a successful worm and composting business from scratch, to a business now generating more than a million dollars a year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3sRICkcbo&t=1780s

Steve Churchill, The Urban Worm Company

Steve Churchill, The Urban Worm Company

Steve Churchill, The Urban Worm Company

 

 

Steve, an actively-serving Air Force veteran, started the Urban Worm Company in 2014 to help teach beginning vermicomposters. In 2018, Steve launched an Urban Worm-branded product line including the flagship Urban Worm Bag. Steve is recognized as a marketing leader in the vermiculture community..

https://urbanwormcompany.com/

Susan Panylyk, Kootenay Worms

Steve Churchill, The Urban Worm Company

Steve Churchill, The Urban Worm Company

 Now coined 'The Worm Lady', Susan been working over the past twenty years to fine tune and find ways to make her hobby, now turned business, easy & something everyone can do. She is passionate about composting worms, recycling, garbage and soil microbes that build soil with the plants! 

https://www.kootenaywormcomposting.com/

Events

Thursday AM

Breakfast Meet & Greet

8:00 am

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9:00 am

Mini-tour

Event Details

Thursday AM

Breakfast Meet & Greet

Join us for breakfast to get things started right. 

8:00 am

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9:00 am

Mini-tour

Thursday AM

Overview and Worm Business 101

9:00 am

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Noon

Event Details

Thursday AM

Overview and Worm Business 101

  • Walking tour of the Arizona Worm Farm
  • Worms 101 (the basics of care and feeding) 
  • Understanding the biology  
    • What makes good castings
    • How to ge...

Event Details

9:00 am

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Noon

Thursday PM

Worm Business

1:00 pm

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4:30 pm

Event Details

Thursday PM

Worm Business

  • Worm Business  
    • revenue models, costing, equipment needed
  • Marketing/Social Media 
  • Success Stories  
  • Breeding Techniques 

1:00 pm

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4:30 pm

Thursday PM Social!

Pizza and Beer and Wine with Worm Farmers

5:00 pm

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6:30 pm

Event Details

Thursday PM Social!

Pizza and Beer and Wine with Worm Farmers

  • Meet other farmers
  • Discuss common problems
  • Have fun!

5:00 pm

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6:30 pm

Friday AM Sessions

Learning Sessions

9:00 pm

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12:00 pm

Event Details

Friday AM Sessions

Learning Sessions

  •  Large Scale Worm Production 
  • Worm tea brewing 
  • Waste diversion programs (compost pickup business)

9:00 pm

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12:00 pm

More Events

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Draft Conference Agenda (pdf)Download

About the speaker's worm farms

The Farm

We can't wait to show you our farm!

Host Farm

John's tour of the Arizona Worm Farm

Texas Worm Ranch

John's tour of Texas Worm Ranch

Accomodations and location

Phoenix in the Winter

January is a great time to come to Arizona! The Phoenix area generally experiences its coldest weather in January, yet, daytime temperatures still average in the middle sixties. The normal daily maximum is 66 degrees.  Our conference will be mostly outside, so dress for cool, comfortable weather.

Transportation

We will provide shuttle service from Gila River to the farm each day.

Attendees

Worm Farms Attending

The following is a list of farms that participated last year:


Kootenay Farms (Baynes Lake B.C. Canada)

Alpenwurm  (Austria)

GreenHill Worm Farm ( Rutherfordton, NC)

Meme's Worms (Lakeland, GA)

Duncan's Worm Farm (Evansville, IN)

Podunk Worm Farms (Reno, Nevada)

Old Tom's Wormery (San Jose, CA)

Texas Worm Ranch (Dallas, TX)

Hobby Worm Farm (Atlanta, GA)

Suburban Worms (Troy, MO)

Seattle Worms (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

Rhody Worms (Exeter, Rhode Island)

Worm Wrangler (Kitchener, ON, Canada)

Sustrigde Sustainability Consulting

Arizona Worm Farm


Can we add your farm to the list? 

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Worm Farm For Profit

Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Worm farmers who want to improve their operations, people considering the worm business, composters who want to improve their profitability.


On the grounds of the Arizona Worm Farm, a 10 acre worm farm in South Phoenix, Arizona.  All sessions will be outside, so dress accordingly.


There is a discounted rate for partners and spouses.


 Our refund policy is: yes, until November 1st.  You can cancel anytime for any reason and we will refund all you paid us.   If you cancel after November 1st, we will return your fees less $100.


 It is really not very accessible, sorry.  We have mulch or dirt everywhere.  We have had people in power wheelchairs here before and they navigated most of the farm - but there are parts they could not go (including our breeding trailers and food forest).  I would guess that you would only be able to access 70% of the farm. 

And, it doesn't rain here in Phoenix very often...but if it does, the mud makes navigation worse.

And, we do not have wheelchair accessible rest rooms.


Contact Us

Contact Us

For more information, send us a message, and we will get back to you as soon as we can. 


For press passes or other special requests, please call 602-418-6704

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2023 Conference on Hold

Staffing issues have caused us to cancel this year's conference.  Sorry.