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Arizona Worm Farm
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BSFL For Chickens Taste Test!
Chickens prefer BSFL to static treats, 100% to 0%. Watch our taste test.
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Free High Protein Food for Your Poultry! BSFL Training
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Simple, direct training video on how to raise Black Soldier Fly Larvae. These are perfect protein supplemental feed for poultry, fish, and reptiles. This video shows you how. Want training or consulting? We offer it here: arizonawormfarm.com/bsf-consultation For BSFL eggs, we sell them here: arizonawormfarm.com/black-soldier-fly For nets and commercial equipment: www.evoconsys.com/products.html...
AZWF Self Tour Introduction
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Sorry, we no longer allow dogs on the property.
About AZWF Tomato House
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Come take a look at our Ground Heated Tomato Greenhouse.
The Arizona Worm Farm How to harvest castings from a bin
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The easy way to harvest castings from a worm bin.
About the Arizona Worm Farm - Makers of Sustainable Compost
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Want to visit? Here's how and what to expect when you get here. We are Arizona's largest worm farm. arizonawormfarm.com/ arizonawormfarm/ azwormfarm
Worm Wedges - How we create Arizona's Best Castings
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Commercial Worm Casting Production. Learn how to harvest Worm Castings on a commercial scale. Worm wedges....how they work. arizonawormfarm.com/ arizonawormfarm/ azwormfarm
Organic Raised Garden Bed Mix
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How we mix Arizona's best raised bed garden mix. arizonawormfarm.com/ arizonawormfarm/ azwormfarm
No-till Organic Gardening
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Organic gardening the lazy way. arizonawormfarm.com/ arizonawormfarm/ azwormfarm
How to Breed Tons of Worms!
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An overview of our breeding process Large Scale Red Wiggler Worm Breeding. Commercial techniques. arizonawormfarm.com/ arizonawormfarm/ azwormfarm
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 9 - Worm Casting Tea
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Arizona Worm Farm Self Guided Tour - Station 9 - How We Brew Our Fresh Worm Casting Tea
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 8 - Happy Chickens
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 8 - Happy Chickens
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 7 - Raised Bed Garden
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 7 - Raised Bed Garden
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 6 - Worm Casting Harvest
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 6 - Worm Casting Harvest
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 5 Prt.2 - Outdoor Worm Wedges
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 5 Prt.2 - Outdoor Worm Wedges
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 5 Prt.1 - How to Vermicompost at Home
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 5 Prt.1 - How to Vermicompost at Home
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 4 - Worm Rollercoaster
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 4 - Worm Rollercoaster
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 3 - Outdoor Flow Through Worm Bin
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 3 - Outdoor Flow Through Worm Bin
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 2 - Worm Grow-out Beds
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 2 - Worm Grow-out Beds
Arizona Worm Farm - Station 1 - Worm Breeding Trailer
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Arizona Worm Farm - Station 1 - Worm Breeding Trailer
How to Prune Tomatoes - Clark's Garden Smarts
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How to Prune Tomatoes - Clark's Garden Smarts
How to Transplant Your Plant Starts - Clark's Garden Smarts
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How to Transplant Your Plant Starts - Clark's Garden Smarts
How to Feed Your Citrus Trees - Clark's Garden Smarts
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How to Feed Your Citrus Trees - Clark's Garden Smarts
How much biomass does a single cycle take in compost material per bin?
couple of pounds. We add about 10 pounds every three days for 3 pounds of larvae
Do y’all have any written literature on this and where to buy the commercial equipment?
Very useful ❤❤❤
Amazing and informative video!!! How do you deal with unwanted pests like mites and gnats?
Excellent information. Thank you!
Are there any resources regarding the wedge system that you use? Cheers
Do you bag up and mail your Angela raised bed mix? Unfortunately, I’m not able to get to Arizona, but I would love to use your mix in my raise beds.
It would be very expensive to ship - I strongly suggest you find someone in your area that makes a "Mel's Mix" and use that - add some worms or worm castings and you will get great results.
@@arizonawormfarm ahh. Ok thank you
Can you classify the pupae and select only the largest to reproduce, or does that classify away all the males?
Definitely interested in more information on the commercial aspect. Thanks posting this.
Evocon system links do not work, do you have a provider for the nets and lights ?
Hi, great video which I've watched a few times so far. Im looking to scale up my operation and would like to know how to build the bubbling humidifier please 🙏🏽
we used a pond fogger from amazon in a 17 gallon tote
thank you so much for the valuable information.
Please! what type of LED light should I use? Thank you!
you need full spectrum light. I get mine here:www.evoconsys.com/blog/black-soldier-fly-breeding-led
Was it a bad idea to buy live bsf from amazon? When they came for my farm they were not moving the only way I can get them to move for maybe a second when I shake them in my hand. Please help and respond.
What color are they? Where are you located?
@@arizonawormfarm I am in Ohio and there are a few pre pupae and maybe a few pupae but most of them are still white and, what does it mean if a few turn into pupae when they are still small.
Is there plastics in the Angela raised bed mix? I got a lot of plastic in your compost the last couple of years. I’m t ting to avoid that this year.
Unfortunately there is. We double screen it and have changed our mulch supplier so there is much less, but we have not been able to eliminate it all.
@@arizonawormfarm Thanks for your honesty. I stills use your worm casting & tea.
I just used a bin with screen cover in my garden and add substrate and organic waste everyday, and the BSF larvae automatically eats everything. I dont capture nor harvest the adult ones though, I just let them grow into adults and reproduce in the bin again. A toad decided to live beside the bin and he happily harvests the ones that are able to leave the bin. God created our world so perfectly well that nothing really comes into waste ( until humans decided to create a lot of waste) .
i am starting a small worm farm to supply only locally as well i started the BSF breeding! i love your videos and I have learned so much from you, I would love to fly from GA USA to come visit your farm when you ever have an open house for visitors to learn more and it would be great pleasure to meet you in person Zach! thanks again for these great videos!
If you are serious - we do have opportunities - we have a VIP tour that is a 90 minute tour of our farm, we also have training sessions and a worm farm business conference that we host in January. You can find details on our web page arizonawormfarm.com and wormbusinessconference.com
@arizonawormfarm thanks! When is the 90 mnt VIP visit available? I would love to come attend!
@@frankceasar317 September 28. Details are here: app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=23178578&appointmentType=25566775
Dude breathing behind the camera is brutal
So, we practice organically but we are not certified organic. The debris is mostly very small pieces of plastic that sneak through our screening process
Is this all organic? Also regarding the mulch on your website, do you have specifics on the "debris" that may be in the mulch? BTW - Your team at the Work Farm is really helpful, and we enjoyed our tour. Thank you!
Will rats eat the larvae, I'm worried about attracting rats with the smell of the chick mash and the possibility of the rats chewing trough the screen on the fly habitat and them not only eating the chick mash but also eating the pupa and baby larvae
Yes, they will. We use physical barriers (walls and doors) to keep them out.
@@zachbrooks1892 Thanks you for the quick answer
Where can I buy those rectangular blue bins, color doesn’t matter
Best comprehensive BSF video out there. Everything is clear and to the point.
agreed!
Hey Zack, I just received my firs colony of 500g of small larvae. I made them a container with cococoir (a liitle wet) as a base and put some oatmeal(wet) with spent coffee grounds and apple waste into the container. The temperature was around 21C. This morining when I woke up a lot of them were lying arountd the container and crawling up the walls. I heard they do this if it's too hot or too wet but that wasn't the case. Just wondering if you have a tip of what else I can do to prevent them of crawling up and out. Best regards Pawel
Excellent instructional video, thank you!
I see people commenting about a seminar at you location, when will you be able to have such an event?
We do them about three times a year. The next on is in September. Details are here: app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule/038c2ee8/?categories[]=Class
Love this video! Wondering if it would be ok to mix cinnamon in the larvae food to help keep mold away?
I’m always amazed buy how much they eat. My chickens fight over them. My chickens are always by my bins
Are the grow out bins right on the ground or is there something under them do they escape?
Thanks
Re: the commercial farm.. 500 pounds a week ends up being 150 or so after drying them out, yes? And i see retail prices around $1/pound for dried BSFL. It seems like that is not enough income to justify the operation. Can you let me know just a little about the math that makes it work out?
500 dries to 220 pounds. We sell them direct to customers for $10 a pound. We sell live to customers for $10 a pound. The key is selling retail direct to customers.
Top notch video. i live in AZ, Ill be making a visit
Thank you so very much for your videos!! I’m trying to design a small commercial operation to support my pastured poultry farm. I’m outside of Portland, Oregon and have basically the opposite weather you experience 😹 Is that a shipping container you use for the commercial side? I want to figure out the right kind of building, insulation, HVAC, that I will need. Can you recommend a building type that might work? Thanks again so much. I’m just starting with the small bins but hoping to have enough to feed 1000+ birds someday and have no clue on what that looks like for BSFL production!!! Perhaps one ton a week.🤔
Hey Sarah - you should call the farm at 602-622-7663 and ask to speak with Tessa. She is our BSFL guru and help talk you through what you need. If it is affordable for you, a trip to our farm would probably also help you get kickstarted. The direct answer to your question: A set-up for 1000+ hens requires a small commercial set up. You need a breeding room and a grow out room. The breeding room needs natural or artificial light and you need to be able to keep temperatures between about 80 degrees and 95 degrees and 70% humidity. The grow out is a bit more forgiving. We produce 400 pounds of larvae a week in one shipping container (40x8x8). It has AC, heat, and a humidifier. And, while we have not done much experimentation with it - it appears the larvae will grow nicely on chicken manure as feedstock. You might have everything you need right in your operation. Although, if you are doing true pasture raising, the manure is probably helping feed the fields they are on.
@@zachbrooks1892 That is super nice of you. I don’t want to take advantage of your time, so I’ll stay small scale getting experience until your workshop! Very much appreciate your content and am so impressed with your business! And yes I’m as true pasture as you can get… even kept my birds on pasture all winter (hoping to avoid that this winter as it’s too much work😹). Another BSFL producer told me to use food scraps instead of manure (I do have a little manure from a few animals who live in the barn and paddocks)…. I’ve even read about people using humanure!!! I just want to have as easy of a system as possible that can be rodent-proofed!! Thanks again very much 🤩
Thanks for explaining all of the details. This is the most informative video on how to farm BSF yourself that I have seen on RUclips. Especially, the how you set up the eggies and the where to get the cages from.
What are the dimensions of your wedges?
We have 8’ and 80’ wedges
Is there a way to collect eggies and delay their hatching? Maybe collect the eggies that you want to delay and put them in a wine cooler at say 50°F. Then at a set interval bring out an eggie and let them hatch.
That will delay some - but you will have a lower hatch rate. If you do this, expect 20-30% loss.
@@arizonawormfarm thanks for the quick response.
@@arizonawormfarm is there a way to time the eggs hatching? Maybe keep them in a dark place until you want them to hatch?
So you control their maturation level by controlling the amount of feed and timing of the feed? I’m looking for a way to have a on going consistent daily supply of BSF larva to feed my chickens. I have 20 egg layers. I don’t know how much larva I need to feed my chickens.
@@timothypropst238 For consistent daily supply, you need some of your larvae pupate (in the beginning, let 50% mature - then cut back when you start getting eggs). You need your own live flies to lay your own eggs to keep them hatching. I focus on breeding - not on controlling maturation. You need to get live flies to hatch.
You don’t mention the calcium level though too
Wow, this is so interesting. I just moved into a new home in Paradise Valley Az, I planted a few citrus trees and a Florida prince peach. I would love to add some worm castings and mulch to my trees and just wondering if you in fact sell to the public? Thankyou
We absolutely do! Our hours are at www.arizonawormfarm.com
@@arizonawormfarm great, thankyou!
Would love to learn more about the batch processing in detail.
I was told by someone at Arizona Worm farm (I highly suggest you buy from them. Satisfied customer here) that chick mash is chicken layer pellets that have been watered and made into a a mash.
It actually just refers to any number of crushed grains/veggies that are fed to chickens.
What is the size of the screening mesh you use to filter the larvae from the frass
What is chick mash?
It's a type of chicken feed that helps the chickens grow faster in the new born stage...most likely a baby food
You can also use rice bran or wheat bran instead of chick mash
Excellent video I am going to purchase from you. Thank you
Do your castings come with any cocoons ,?
Very informative. What do you do with the dead flies
Thank you Zach, This is very helpful!
Thanks for the kind and amazing explanation ❤
Great video! Two questions… Are you able to use soil for Browns? And, do you have any alternatives to chicken mash that may work? Loved all the info!
thanks - you can use soil, but it needs to be "fluffy" - not hard pack. Any food waste will work for the hatching shower. I use chicken mash because it is really easy for the larvae and for us.
I want to get worms for composting but my concern is it gets really hot here in Arizona how do I take care of that if I want to keep them outside
@Arizona Worm Farm - What happens to the dead BSF? Is there a use for them, or are they just trash?
Insect bodies are a great addition to a hot compost pile!
@@arizonawormfarm Thanks for the reply! I knew they had some use.