In Southern Georgia gathering worms and keeping them in Buckets goes back to the original pioneer settlements before the Civil War. These worms were not used for composting they were used for fishing bait.
Here in the south the worm composting process has been going on since beginning of time without any help from us humans. It was originally commercialised mainly in the southern States, not for the purpose of processing organic waste, but to produce bait worms for sports fishermen. Southerners like elsewhere, just love to fish and when we're not fishing we love telling stories about how big the one that got away was.
There was a lull during the eighties, but now vermicomposting is really back and booming.
Not only in the southern part of the United States, but it's really big in Australia, Cuba and India, among other places. Work with compost worms is definitely on the way up, not only in schools and private households, but also in the industrial waste management sector. Research into the uses of worm biohumus has produced some very exciting results which point to an interesting future for this process.
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