"FarmI" wrote:
"brooklyn1" wrote:

I find it interesting how each and every responder talks about someone
they know but none have actually farmed worms themselves...

A lot of people here have had worm farms but the OP asked about garden
worms and growing garden worms. Worm farm worms are not garden worms.

The OP asked about earth worms as fishing bait, those are most assuredly the
garden variety earthworms. Earthworms are not easily farmed in all soil
types nor in all climates... if one lives in arid Utah they had best forget
DIY and buy from a bait store. Where I live in upstate NY fishing is as
popular a pastime as anywhere on the planet. Worms are easy to grow in NY's
rich deep topsoil (a lot depends on weather conditions), after a rainy night
before the sun is up I can go out with a flashlight and pick all the huge
night crawlers I want off my blacktop driveway, but still most buy worms, at
like $1.50 a container there's more than enough for two people to fish all
day... worms are readily available in just about every town, typically sold
at gas stations. If one wants to farm worms as a business or even as a
hobby fine, but it makes no economic sense for just ones own fishing, and
any left over worms can live in ones beer fridge for at least four days.