 The Rowes started their worm farm last summmer |
A husband and wife team of dairy farmers are about to harvest the first of an unusual crop. Sharon and Neil Rowe from the Lizard set up a worm farm last summer.
Mr Rowe is a partner in a family business farming around 600 acres and he and Sharon started breeding worms to diversify their business to combat falling farm incomes.
Organic Resources Management, which supplied their millions of worms and will buy them back when they are harvested, helped the Rowes to start their beds on 1,000 square metres of farmland.
'Secondary income'
The couple were able to able to develop the project thanks to help from the Objective One Rural Diversification Capital Grant Initiative (RDCGI) which allowed them to assess the proposed project and its potential benefit to the overall business.
"This small but effective project has allowed the Rowes to diversify by expanding into a new area that offers an innovative way to develop a secondary income stream," said Marilyn Pryor, RCDGI manager.
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