About Me
Hi, I'm Scott Kent. I am a Husband, a Father of 2 young kiddos, and the owner of Hungry Worms. It is just me and one employee, and you'll speak directly with me for any customer service needs!
This business is what puts food on our table, pays for our bills, and is what I've committed my financial career to. Thank you for visiting my website and supporting me!
You are absolutely welcome to give me a call if you want to talk!
My Journey Over the Years
WHEN IT ALL BEGAN
December 2015
For Christmas in 2015 I was gifted a plastic stacking worm tray. I started with "super reds" not really knowing the difference in all the worm species and later realized they were european nightcrawlers. I killed my first couple batches due to adding too many coffee grounds and hot composting in the bin. This is my first documented picture where I was asking why some of the castings were different colored than others and it was due to the worms eating lots of newspaper and producing newspaper colored castings.
Beginning a Business
2019-2020
In late 2019 I started approaching this as a business and potential career option. My original business name was "One World Ecology" and the first website I made still exists at https://scottkent45.gitlab.io/ as a screenshot in time. At the time, I had collected thousands of pounds of food waste from local restaurants and was using African Nightcrawlers to process the waste. I sold the worm castings to greenhouses, hemp farms, and competitive pumpkin growers. I had pitched my business idea at my university and won some minor prizes including a Video Production that helped me to get some media coverage at HJ News and Cache Valley Daily
Discovering the Soil Food Web
November 2020
As I was doing research into worm castings I wanted to understand the microbiological portion better. I stumbled across a youtube video titled "The Roots of Your Profits" that featured Elaine Ingham. The explanation of soil microbiology was easy to understand and painted a clear understanding of soil microbiology. I changed my business name to Utah BioAgriculture to better highlight the capabilities of worm composting and worm castings. I went through and graduated from the Soil Food Web School in the following year or so. The second picture was from my very first look at my worm castings under the microscope.
Things Start Heating Up
2022-2023
Any worm composting veterans remember when blue worms plagued most worm farm's red wigglers stock. I was among the first to offer pure red wigglers which got me connected with the Urban Worm Company and I began fulfilling their pure red wiggler orders. My wife and I were doing all the harvesting of the worms by hand until I invested in more infrastructure and different experiments to grow and harvest worms more efficiently - the main investment being a trommel. For a brief time I operated as and created a website for "Mighty Worms" but I had too many orders from resellers as it was to worry about having my own website so I didn't do too much with it.
My 3rd business space
January 2024
The first time I moved out of a family member's space was January 2024. I spent the next several months just getting better at growing worms and spent a decent amount of effort with creating worm extracts and soil microbiology.
My 4th business space
June 2024
Things are really growing fast now, and in June 2024 I needed a bigger space. I spent the summer moving hundreds of worm bins (yeah its a pain) a few hours north just across the border into Idaho. It was also then that I switched to the worms as my primarily source of income. I began supplying for several other well know worm farms and brought on an employee to help with the workload too.
Collaboration with Worm People
May 2025
Worm People is an amazing community for worm farmers. I helped make a course to teach microscopy skills to those who want to be able to look at their worm castings, composts, teas/extracts under the microscope and measure the biological quality. You can learn about it on the Worm People Youtube Page
The Present
June 2026
In June 2026 I will be more than doubling my space. As of the time that I am writing this I haven't moved in yet (new lease starts in 4 days) but I'll come back and add pictures once I'm settled in.
