My grandpa had a country store and between the 2 of us, we raised almost everything there is for fishing. Old fridge on it's side half full of cow patties for red wigglers, big plywood box inside the store held crickets, and in the back of the store was 3/4 of a 55gal. barrel for the "golden grubs" or meal worms as people call them now a days.
He had about a foot of saw dust in the bottom, about an inch of layered news papers on top of that and once a week, he took 2 potatos (cut into quarters) and just placed them around ramdomly while removing the old taters. The grubs ate the paper, got their moisture from the taters and the sawdust kept them dry. He started out with 200 and within a month we were selling them for a penny apiece as fast as we could box them up (with a little sawdust in the bottom of the container).
Hope this helps. He kept them in the back of the store year round, but do not believe he let the temp get much below 60 in the winter time.
Dusty
P.S. Forgot to mention the 5 catawbua (i know it's misspelled) trees and picked off the worms and froze them in corn meal. Best bream bait I ever found.
Last edited by centerdriver; 02-01-2009 at 10:11 AM.
Reason: Forgot to menton.
A gun in hand is a lot better than a cop on the phone.