Big Enterprise With Little Insects

About three years ago, two young boys were considering what should be their latest enterprise.

“We wanted to start a business,” said Graham Santero.

How they progressed from two boys with big ideas to a business is credited to his mom.

“It's actually kind of funny. We were driving down the road and my mom said 'why not sell worms?'”

Thursday, June 9, Santero and his partner Kale Kaiser held a worm clinic at Legion Park for children. In the clinic, they explained how to feed worms, including what they eat and what they don't like to eat, ideal temperature, lighting and symptoms they need to change their diet. They also explained how children can construct their own worm composting bin.

The clinic included a hand-out with information the boys had researched on worms: managing fruit flies, and a list of “Fun Facts about Worms.” For example, earthworms can regenerate most lost segments of their bodies, worms have no lungs but breathe through their skins, and each acre of land has 250,000 to 1.75 million worms.