Worms not just for the birds.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | February 22, 2002| | Copyright

DUCKERS, Ky. _ In a greenhouse where burley tobacco seedlings once sprouted, James "Mickey" Reed prepares to harvest a very different crop: millions of red, wriggling, twisting, turning worms.

Woodford County is better known for production of the Kentucky triumvirate: horses, tobacco and bourbon whiskey. Equine and burley income together funnel $283 million to Woodford, second only to Fayette in cash agricultural receipts.

But reductions in tobacco quotas have farmers looking for alternatives, and among them was Reed, 71, who one day read about vermiculture ...

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