Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating - Best of Acquisitions Anonymous - Episode 214: Worm Farm

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

In this episode, the hosts break down an absurdly profitable worm farm in rural California that claims $1.5M in cash flow and may be one of the best deals they've ever seen—if it's real.We...lcome to Acquisitions Anonymous – the #1 podcast for small business M&A. Every week, we break down businesses for sale and talk about buying, operating, and growing them.💰 Sponsored by:Viso Business Capital — Get the right SBA loan tailored to your acquisition needs with Heather Endresen’s firm. Sign up for a free live Q&A on SBA loans at https://www.visocap.net and click “Zoom Sign Up” in the top-right corner.Capital Pad – A platform connecting accredited investors with vetted small business acquisition deals. Discover exclusive opportunities at https://capitalpad.comIn one of the most entertaining and surprising episodes of Acquisitions Anonymous, the full host crew digs into a worm farm listed for $1.8M with a jaw-dropping $1.5M in purported cash flow. Based in rural Durham, California, this business sells worms, worm castings, and premium soil blends, while also running an educational foundation and e-commerce operation with absurdly high average order values.Key Highlights:- Asking Price: $1.8M with claimed $1.5M in cash flow- Located on 10 leased acres in rural Northern California- Includes $1.35M in inventory and $400K in equipment- Educational non-profit and e-commerce add extra revenue streams- Potential risks: Lease structure, inflated financials, niche operationsSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking here Do you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show! Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations. For inquiries or suggestions, email us at contact@acquanon.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back to Acquisitions Anonymous. To close out the year, we're highlighting some of the best episodes we've ever recorded. These are the ones that sparked the most conversation and brought in waves of new listeners. So for December and some of early January, we're rolling out our best of series, a collection of the breakdowns, hot takes, and unforgettable deals that shape the channel. Whether rewatching or catching it for the first time, this episode is a fan favorite. Let's jump right in. Hello, boys and girls.
Starting point is 00:00:25 This is Bill Alessandro. I am one of your hosts, and welcome back to another episode of Acquisites. This week is one of, for me, the most fun episodes we've ever done. We have all four co-hosts this week and we covered a worm farm in Northern California. Yes, a worm farm that is making one and a half million dollars. They sell worms, they sell dirt, they teach other people how to do worms and it is priced at like 1.2 times cash flow. This was really fun and I think you're really going to enjoy this episode of Acquisitions Anonymous.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Hi, Heather here. When I'm not breaking down deals with these guys, I'm helping people get the right SBA loans for their business acquisitions. Because when you're buying a business, the best financing isn't one size fits all. There's the best rate, fastest to close, the specific loan structure that you need, or a little of all of those things. That's why my company, Vizzo Business Capital, works with over 30 different lenders to find you the best funding in less time and with less friction so you can focus on the deal. Sign up for a free live Q&A session on SBA loans at VisoCAP.net. Then click Zoom sign up in the top right corner. That's V-I-S-O-C-A-P.net and click Zoom sign up. Wait, did we? Oh, nobody's hosting?
Starting point is 00:01:40 All right. All right, I'll do it. Here we go. Here we go. One more episode of Acquisitions Anonymous. This one is pretty cool because it's about bugs. This is one of the weirdest deals we've seen in a while. Who has ever seen a deal like this?
Starting point is 00:01:57 No. That's why I flagged it when I saw it. And we came across it from Thomas Ince, who is a PE guy up in Austin, who is now tweeting a lot about small business and business operations and stuff like that. And so this is a fun one. So I flagged it and insisted we do it today.
Starting point is 00:02:17 So here's the listing, nationally acclaimed, quote unquote, the worm farm selling soil, worms and castings, located in Durham, California, which is Butte County. I've never heard of any of those places except for California. So it must be somewhere very rural in California. Has a picture here of a very, well, a worm bill
Starting point is 00:02:38 wearing a top hat. It's amazing about, no. It's a very, it's a very, it's a very sophisticated worm. They are asking $1.8 million for it. It cash flows $1.45 million. Gross revenue is $2.5 million. Furniture, fixtures, and equipment of $400,000, inventory of $950,000, and it's paying rent of $1,800 per month.
Starting point is 00:03:05 So wait a second. They're asking $1.8 million for the worm farm, and it cash flows $1.5 million? So they're asking 1.2 times or something. Yeah, okay. Yeah, valuation. For the reason like worse, my checkbook. Okay, business description.
Starting point is 00:03:26 It is an established business with great income and even all caps, bigger upward potential. Welcome to the worm farm. Since 1990, the worm farm has been a Durham staple offering worms, worm castings, premixed, and custom soils blends alongside their learning foundation, helping teach thousands of North State students, both young and old, their vermi composting processes, ability to custom mix blends to client needs, and their registered
Starting point is 00:03:50 proprietary mixes have made them the leading supplier in the region as well as having nationwide notability. While the company has grown significantly over the past three decades and continually becomes more efficient, there are significant upward growth available for a new owner to take this well-known and established business to the next level. Previously featured on CNBC's blue-collar millionaires and gross sales in excess of 3.7 million in 2021. This bustling small business makes great returns for its current owners and can do wonders for the next generation of ownership. with this sale including state-of-the-art custom software program tracking customer orders, inventory, deliveries, replacement inventory, ordering, and more extensive equipment of machinery,
Starting point is 00:04:28 existing inventory, intellectual property, yada, yada, yada, yada, and they have a 503C learning foundation. Customer lists and much more, this offering represents a tremendous opportunity for a new owner. Don't miss out, yada, yada, yada. And then they have a video here, Bill. I know. It's a shame that this is not an audiovisual podcast for most people listening. Six minutes long. I don't think we have time for that.
Starting point is 00:04:51 We could talk to Ty and see if he wants to include some part of this, or maybe we put it at the end of the episode. We'll put it in the comments. Yeah, so it's a what they have here linked is a CNBC segment that is a YouTube video that is six minutes and 30 seconds and so on. Okay, so location, here's some rehashing everything. Location in Durham, California, inventory, including asking price, Real estate is leased.
Starting point is 00:05:17 They have a 20,000-foot building. The lease does not expire. For employees, FF&E is included in the asking price, and it's located in 10 acres in Durham, California, different warehouse-type buildings, a mixed-use building for the Educational Foundation, manufactured building uses an office, multiple medium-duty state-side trucks,
Starting point is 00:05:38 large loaders tractors and especially mixing. All right, here's the, if you ever wonder, who competes with your worm farm? while this business propagates and sells worm and worm castings by far and above the largest portion of this business are mixed soil blends, both proprietary and custom blending available.
Starting point is 00:05:54 The worm farm produces the highest quality soil blends in the area and is highly sought out through the region. So I don't know, maybe there are other worm farms. This really surprised me, right? Because you hear the word worm farm and you go, this is an operation that produces and sells worms for bait.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Or for put in your garden or whatever. I thought they're selling mostly worms. Turns out they're selling, mostly soil that the worms have lived in and enriched and shed their skins in and has nutrient-rich properties, which I didn't see coming. So this is a dirt farm. I guess that's worm castes. If you go to their website though, four pounds of worms is $150. I mean, four pounds is a lot of worms, but $150 as an average order value on e-com, this is amazing. Yeah, 10 pounds of worms, $350.
Starting point is 00:06:44 I have purchased worms for my garden. And I think they probably came from, because it had a funky logo on it, you know, that I thought was pretty funny. And I could almost guarantee it came from this place. And I don't remember what I paid, but I ordered them on Amazon. And we put them in our garden. And, yeah, I got a bag of worms. Heather, you made it four and a half minutes into the episode before you dropped that bomb on. I'm really impressed.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I was thinking, you know, maybe I shouldn't tell people about this. So you bought live worms on Amazon? That's possible? I did. I bought live worms on Amazon. And they were great. They're still like, there's a whole colony out there in the garden. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:07:28 So Heather, why did you buy the worms? Is it good for the soil? It is. So I'm into gardening. So we have a garden. We have a vegetable garden every summer and we love tomatoes and zucchini and all that kind of stuff. And we're always trying to figure out how to make the soil a little bit better because we have
Starting point is 00:07:43 clay. It's a, you know, clay soil here. So it's, we wanted to aerate it and enrich it. And this was kind of one of the easier ways when we were researching it to do that is just add worms. So we did a couple years ago. So you get in the mail just like a pile of nightmare fuel wriggling worms. I was scared what it was going to be like. It was like a bag that was sort of aerated and had dirt, but mostly worms, you know, dirt and worms. And, you know, and it comes like, hey, you know, you've got to go take care of this right away, you know, make sure. you keep it damp and all that kind of stuff. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Crazy. How was it shipped? Was it like FedEx? I don't remember, but it had some special shipping. It definitely did. So it was kept damp and it was kept kind of cool so that they would be alive. I mean, guys, the margin on this has to be incredible. One gallon of worm castings, which is, I guess, just like the stuff that they, you know, spit out and poop out.
Starting point is 00:08:36 A gallon is $27.98. And it's free shipping. So, but that if you, if you. get a cubic foot or a cubic yard, shipping's not included. But a gallon, to ship a gallon of something is not, I mean, I know it's expensive, but if it's $28, Bill, the unit economics on this have to work, right, even in e-commerce. Especially because what you're selling here is like worm poop. So the dogs are low. Yes. Well, and if you look at the listing, their business is doing two and a half million of revenue and one and a half million of cash flow. So, yeah. Although there is a hint. I'm
Starting point is 00:09:12 wondering if the business is in decline because they said they did $3.7 million in 2021. I'm getting a sense that that is the CNBC bump because it's mentioned in the same sentence as when they were on CNBC. Yeah, yeah. So I think that's a little bit artificially high. But I would like to see the trend. At the same time, though, worms, like this does not seem like it's going away. If people are fishing and gardening, you know, I don't think the internet is disrupting worms.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Heather, how did you find, you just went to Amazon, you said, I want garden worms? I go to Amazon first for these kinds of things. I do my research, I figure out what I, you know, what weird thing I need or want. And then I go on Amazon and just search it. And there it was. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:01 One thing that's kind of interesting about this, this is obviously a geographically dependent business. You know, they have 10 acres, they have a 20,000 square foot, you know, building. or it's multiple buildings that are obviously pretty specific for what they do. Like they say they're dirt floor buildings. That's not very common. So you got to go be in this area. But when you look at this, they include the inventory and they include the FF&E, which even if you take a discount off of it, there's $1.35 million worth of inventory and FF&E.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Even if you say 50% of that is the real value, you know, or the actual depreciated cost or something like that. I mean, there's a pile of assets here relative to the cash flow and relative to the purchase price. That's a good point, Mills. Why is this so cheap? So they're trying to sell it for 1.2 times cash flow, but net of inventory, or maybe they want to buy that different? I mean, net of inventory, it's free, essentially.
Starting point is 00:10:59 They're going to give you this business. Yeah, that doesn't, it doesn't make sense. And it's way up in Northern California. So I think maybe, you know, the location, they maybe have a very limited number of buyers who can have to move there. You have to, you have to manage the operations. And by the way, shouldn't it be called a worm ranch? Isn't that? Yes, it should definitely be called a worm ranch. It is interesting, you know, I've pulled up their website, which is great that they're telling us who they are and everything straight up, but they claim to sell, you know, why, I guess the question
Starting point is 00:11:35 is, why is this not just another worm farm, right? That's a, you know, like, what was the last time you saw a farm that's not doing illegal drugs that could do these kind of profit margins. It just doesn't happen. And they claim that they have a couple differentiators. Number one, longevity in the market. They've been around for a while, and people keep coming back because of that. They have these relationships with families, universities, schools, nonprofit agencies, all these kind of folks, lawyers, Hollywood celebrities.
Starting point is 00:12:07 I've heard Matthew McConaughey is a huge worm guy. I don't know if you guys do that. simulator research missions to outer space, home and commercial gardeners, and on and on, people just like you. So I don't know if that's BS or not. Then they claim that they do this special type of composting worm called the Incenia Fatita Red Worm, but they're not just another worm company. So I don't know. Do you guys buy that? It's like show worms. I don't buy that they've got special worms. So I googled worm farm because, you know, while you're talking, Michael, I kind of wondered how unique is this. And I found a ton of content on like create your own
Starting point is 00:12:46 worm farm in your backyard, like small time hobbyist country. I found maybe two or three. There's this other one, this one called the Arizona worm farm that looks like it's a pretty decent operation. They've got another one called Uncle Jim's worm farm that keeps coming up that I think sells, you know, has been around for 40 years. I don't think this is like there's a worm farm on every corner type thing. Yeah. It is, well, so two things. One is if you go to the Contact Us page, there's actually two, they have two worm farms for
Starting point is 00:13:19 the worm farm. They have worm farm Durham and then they actually have Worm Farm, Oregon, near Portland. But I don't see anything about that one being sold as part of this. Yeah. So anyway, and then I had a second point, but I'm sure I'll take of it a minute. I don't, sorry. So I don't hate this business. Yeah. No, I'm kind of thinking, Bill, why would you not buy this business? I mean, okay, so it's very cheap, right? The downside is you've got to live in nowhere, California. But there's worse places to live than Northern California, right? Yes, but do you? I mean, this is the type of business that you could hire a general management for. I mean, literally you got to sit there and watch the worms eat the soil. Like how, not to minimize.
Starting point is 00:14:02 their business, right? I'm sure there's... No, you got to move. It's like heavy equipment, right? You're probably moving quite a bit of dirt and it's a dirty job. It's a messy, it's a messy business, for sure. But it's farming. Like, there's a ton of like good general manager farmers you could hire to do this business. I mean, you've got, you got $1.5 million of cash flow. I mean, you could pay $150,000 and that would be more than the average American farmer makes, period, working their entire farm. Just get the best farmer to be in charge of this. And, live wherever you want to live. Hey everyone, it's Bill, and I want to tell you about maybe the most exciting sponsor
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Starting point is 00:15:59 This is definitely a business that's, I think it's one where you think it's difficult to recruit for this, but it's so inspiring. There's like an unlimited number of people who want to like be close to nature, be helping like host kids to come in as part of this foundational work they do. Like talk, there's worm nerds. I guarantee there's worm nerds who want to do this. Even though it's 90 minutes north, so 85 miles north of Sacramento, like I don't think it's of be as stupid as some of the other stuff. We've looked at like staffing some of this stuff, like in rural North Carolina and stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:37 And it's just like, oh, that's not, you're never going to have, you're never going to staff your bowling alley in rural North Carolina. But like, I think this is one that I wouldn't be so scared, right? So one thing that's kind of interesting is this, this broker, Warren Bullock, who, if you Google his phone number, it looks like he's a real estate agent in Northern California and he has like a consulting business. So, you know, this is not, obviously, this is kind of a funky listing. No investment bank is going to take this to market. You know, I don't think a
Starting point is 00:17:11 private equity firm is going to scoop this up. And it's not big enough, you know, to be a platform acquisition. And it's too weird to be a tuck in for anything, probably. But I think this guy's like a consultant, probably just like, you know, a man about town in Northern California. who just helps people with, you know, with their general kind of business problem. So I, this is, this is really intriguing. So why is this bad? Because on the face of it, it's super attractively priced. I don't, it's semi unique. You know, I think you could probably staff it. I mean, this guy ran for Paradise Town Council and he has a clamor shot. Oh, wow. Yes. So this is, This is another thing.
Starting point is 00:17:59 For those of you listening in, I googled him. And he and his wife, I guess, our business partner, it's not really clear. They both have very distinct red hair and decided to wear purple in all of the photos. So it's really great. These would be cool people. I'd like to know these people, but they definitely dress differently. Also, in case you're interested, the most famous person named Warren Bullock is a UK-based ballroom dancer, and this is him.
Starting point is 00:18:31 If you're on YouTube, you go to check this guy out. All right, sorry. Go ahead, Bill. So I think this is a good business, right? So it's a practically priced. It's probably not going to be a ton of competition to own it because it's a little bit dirty, right? No pun intended.
Starting point is 00:18:46 And there's physical operations. And as Mills said, not a great ad on or tuck in. It's represented by, and I always love this, like, you know, probably not widely shopped, right? Warren Bullock is a, is a realtor. It's not complicated. You probably saw a lot of stuff online. I even wonder if, you know, four employees. They have four employees, so it's not that complicated. It makes one and a half million dollars a year. You probably don't have to live there. You might even be able to open one or two more of these things, you know, somewhere in the, in the country, if there's like a local business supplying soil amendments, maybe you open a few more.
Starting point is 00:19:20 This is not terrible, right? Is this the first? Acquisitions Anonymous deal. I mean, I know we want to do the pizza boat. But pizza boat, this is better than pizza boat, I think. I don't know, Bill. Do you like this worse? I mean, it's a little less sexy than pizza boat. It's less sexy than pizza boat.
Starting point is 00:19:38 But it's pretty cool. I like, so like this is like the quintessential. It's cool. Do you want to be cool? Do you want to be cool at like a whole co-conference by this business and then tell people that one of the businesses in your whole co is a worm farm in northern california and there's like a small segment of nerds that will just be so aroused right okay so let's make let's figure out how to make this deal work so okay hather do we need an sba loan we should get we should get the nda and sign it and
Starting point is 00:20:16 decide whether or not we want to publish the episode if we're going to if we're going to try and get it Under L-O-I, we need to wait and not publish the episode and not create all of our competition for the deal. Oh. Broker Warren Bullock is not listed to our podcast. No, no, I know. But if we publish this, right? And then simultaneously, we're trying to get the SIM or, I mean, there's probably not a SIM, right? If we're trying to have a conversation with the seller and Heather's going on the site visit for us.
Starting point is 00:20:45 I will. And then simultaneously, all of, you know, SMB, Twitter is also trying to hit up this broker. he's going to feel like he hit the water. Do you know what? Well, look, I'm not actually that interested in owning the business. I just want to go tell my wife that I have to go on a business trip to a worm farm. This is it. I just want to record that.
Starting point is 00:21:06 I think it makes some good short-form content. I don't actually want to own the warm farm. I just want to have to go explain why I'm going to a worm farm north of Sacramento for the weekend. I'm a horse person. So I think, like, I would say, well, this would be awesome to own, live there, have your horses, have the cash flow. I mean, I think it's a great business, honestly. It really is.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Can you get an SBA loan? Yeah, you could. Definitely. The tricky part about a loan on this one is the lease. It's all on lease land. So we need to know who owns this land. How long is that lease good for? That could be the only trick.
Starting point is 00:21:44 We don't know much about that. And they've been there for an awfully long time to not own the dirt. And that is the business. obviously, so not probably the easiest thing to move. Literally. You know, it's all underground, probably, or a lot of it is. So that's probably the toughest part about figuring out whether it's financeable. And really, even if you weren't financing it, even to buy it, you'd have to do a lot of diligence on the lease. I mean, it's 10 acres out of the middle of nowhere. How could we not buy the land with this? Like, surely, and they're only getting $1,800 a month.
Starting point is 00:22:15 Well, that's what I was going to say. I don't think being the landlord is a good business here. You're making $25,000 a year in rent? Well, like if you do, let's say it's $1,800 a month and I don't even know. So it's $25,000 plus or minus. Let's say they're getting 30 gross out of the whole thing. Or at least $30K triple net. Even if you pay them at $10,000, that's $300,000 for the land.
Starting point is 00:22:38 It's kind of worth it for that safety and security, not to know you ever have to move. I would agree. And there's a lot of leased land in farm country, you know, so it could be just, you know, those kind of farm leases and that's just, you'd have to do a lot of diligence
Starting point is 00:22:52 and I agree, you would want to own the land if you can here. But even if they double your rent, they hit you for another 25 grand a year. You know? Like, I could probably get comfortable with this.
Starting point is 00:23:04 I think you go to the landlord and you're like, I want a 99 year lease and I'll lock in 5% step-ups until the end of time. Go. Can we get one of those crazy farm loans? Don't they have those things?
Starting point is 00:23:16 Oh, maybe. be the subsidized agricultural loan. USDA. We can get an FDA loan on this. You've got USDA. Okay. You could go USDA or SBA. I don't know that there'd really be that much of an advantage to USDA because they want
Starting point is 00:23:28 assets. It's a weird program where they have to have machinery and equipment or, you know, certain amount of assets. It's probably better as an SBA if you're not buying the land. Okay. So here's the deal on this episode. We're like six, three or four weeks ahead. We can even delay this one a bit.
Starting point is 00:23:45 It gives us some time to actually go try to make this. happened. So, all right, now we've got to go to the important thing. We have the idea. Who wants to do all the work? Ah, that's always the problem. Well, Heather has to do all the work because she's new, right? That's how it works. Oh, yeah. That's how it works. Okay. No, I would, I would go up there. I mean, what do we want to do? Just get the SIM and, and, well, there's no SIM, right? Just get the financials or whatever we can get. I'll reach out to this guy. I already, I already messaged Warren and I texted him as well. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's an easy fight for me to go to Sacramento and rent a car and drive out there.
Starting point is 00:24:21 Let's get the SIM. And then here's what we need to do. When it shows up the SIM, we need to get together and record us, reviewing it and record a lot of us. We'll do this live through the whole thing. And people can see, uh, from, from people are like, how do you go from zero to like creating something? And then how did you end up owning a warm farm in northern California?
Starting point is 00:24:42 A great exposure of how people are like, oh, that's how business gets created. And you guys are just as stupid as the rest of us. You're just not dumb enough to slow down and question what you're doing. So then we should record it. We'll record us reviewing the sim as the episode. Assuming Warren Bullock would carve out any NDA, he would make a sign to allow us to do that. Well, and I think what we could do, right? There was this famous series of articles called Street Smarts in, I think it was Inc.
Starting point is 00:25:10 magazine years and years ago. And it was a guy who was selling his business. And part of the whole process was that he just, just told all the buyers, look, hey, I'm just going to be totally transparent. I'm like doing this, you know, you're going to be, you're going to be part of this national article that goes out every month. And it was like, I think what the editor at Forbes told me was that, or Inc, was that it was like their most popular, you know, article in like the history of time. But it was just like every month, people were like, what's happening next with, you know, so-and-so's deal? That's cool. I could video the
Starting point is 00:25:41 site visit, you know, take a, take my phone out and video some of that. And yeah, I don't know why you keep talking like you're going by yourself. I'm fine out there for sure. All right. Come with me. I as a party. I, uh, you got, you got to get your mind right on that. Michael's like, I don't want to own any of it, but I will, I will do diligence the heck out of it with you.
Starting point is 00:25:59 No, no. I'm in. I'm in. I want to be, I want to be part of this. I want to be on the board of the worm farm. I want to have like worm farm retreats. I want to be like testing the product and throwing the worms in my backyard. I want to have like my Twitter bio being like owner, coffee, school, software.
Starting point is 00:26:16 Worm farm. Like, yeah, I'm all in. Yeah, let's go. So one more thing on this business. I would be really interested to learn more about how much of this business is the worm farm, like selling the soil amendments and the worms, and how much of this business is the education, the, I don't know, maybe people come and tour the worm farm and they sell them beer and, you know, teach them how worm farming works.
Starting point is 00:26:43 You know, maybe it's like a tourist chenchant. resell other products, you know, different, you know, kind of pest control and books and different things on the website. It's like etymology. I bet you, I bet you the owners are etymologists or they have, you know, there's a lot of folks up in the Central Valley that that's their background and they, you know, service farms. That's to me what it seems like. They call themselves vermiculturalists. So vermiculture is the practice of farming worms, I guess, and other bugs. Other vermin, perhaps. So what I wonder, though, is if this is like sort of a unique worm farm in that they've built
Starting point is 00:27:22 a brand around it. Like how many soil production companies have a logo of a, you know, a worm in a top hat? You know, like they've, and when I see the margins too, like they got 50% or 60% cash flow margins. Like that feels to me like they're selling some non-physical products with 100% gross moments. Look, how would you like to be the people that started this and you're in Durham, California? with a bunch of other farmers, barely scraping it by,
Starting point is 00:27:47 and you're the guy, like, showing up in a Maserati to, like, the local diner, because you're just killing it. And the license plate says worms. Yeah, it's just like, how are you that guy? Like, it's just got to be such, that's the other reason to go on this site visit, is a million percent, the people that are doing this, that own this thing, you can see it in their website, they have enormous personalities, and they're going to be characters, and you just go to their house, there's going to be, you'll invite you in to eat
Starting point is 00:28:14 and have coffee, they'll just be like a bucket of worms on the kitchen table. It's just going to be that kind of experience. So one time I was looking at buying a piece of property that was maybe like 15 years ago, and I flew out there. We were buying it from some guys who were in the panhandle where it still snowed a lot. In the summer, they would run tractors for the individual farms. But in the winter, they would snowplow with the same tractors. So I'm there for like 20 minutes. And next thing I know, like, they're letting me drive the tractor like around the parking lot. I'm like snowplowing.
Starting point is 00:28:45 And this thing's huge. It's like 30 foot tall. It's like one of those ginormous combine ones. So this is one of those experiences. I'm just telling you, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. So that's where we're going. All right. Well, I'm going to make one guess, a prediction that that's not really the cash flow.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Like, it's a realtor. He doesn't know what he's looking at. So I'm not saying it will be terrible, but it may not be, that's maybe not the cash flow. What does he think cash flow is? You know, that's a good point. It's probably revenue. And we're going to be like, oh, you guys made 180 grand last year? You want $1.5 million?
Starting point is 00:29:17 Yeah, it is. Nice bucket of orangey out there. Let's find it. Back to the airport. Yeah, it's suspiciously cheap. I love it. All right. Well, okay, so we're doing this and the pizza boat or just this?
Starting point is 00:29:30 Love it. That's the new, the new Holcoe model, one half the year of the worm farm, one half the year on the pizza boat. You'd be the only person of the world with that career. Pizza worms. You're saying this about Holcoe after you completely deep. reconstructed it on somebody else's podcast. This is the new whole coat, the new, the new Buffet,
Starting point is 00:29:48 Worms and Pizza. Things that don't belong together at all. That's the whole premise. Yeah, I love it. Heather, we call that uncorrelated in whole colon. So it now sounds even, it sounds sophisticated. It's really smart. That's how you make it sounds sophisticated.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Amazing. All right. Anything else you guys want to cover on this one? Otherwise, you'll probably hear from us talking about this again, even if it may be, hey, we discovered they're not actually really making money. Very cool. I love this one. All right. That wraps it up for this week of Worms Anonymous.
Starting point is 00:30:18 We will see you guys next time.

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