- Are you ready?
- I'm gonna cry. (laughs)
- [Lori] They won't hurt you.
- [Girl] Um (squeals)
Here's your wad of worms.
(child squeals)
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- Good morning.
- How are you doing today?
- Good.
- I'm Miko
- Miko, I'm Lori.
- Nice to meet you Lori.
- Good to meet you.
And you are?
- I'm Mateo.
- Nice to meet you Mateo.
Why do you think we're here today?
- Play with dirt.
- That's part right.
What do you think hides in the dirt.
- Hay.
- How about?
- Worms? - Worms, yes!
I am a worm farmer.
- Do you pick worms out of the ground?
- That's right.
And I get really dirty doing it.
Do you see any worms in there?
- No.
- No. I just see mostly soil and dirt.
- Worms do not like light.
- They're like nocturnal.
- Nocturnal would mean they're sleeping.
I don't know if they sleep, but they're always in the dark.
- That's really cool.
- I know that if you cut a worm in half
that it'll still be alive.
- That's correct.
- And also worms eat garbage.
- Uh huh, and they make this wonderful
beautiful fertilized soil called castings.
I call it warm poop. (laughs)
- I think everyone calls it warm poop.
- How did you become a warm farmer?
- Well, I grew up on a farm.
Well, cows poop a lot.
We had to come up with a way to get rid of their waste.
I developed a big, huge worm bed
and started putting the manures in piles.
Eventually they pooped through all of it
and gimme a nice pile of wonderful soil.
- You put them on your bed and then they pooped
on your bed and you were happy about that?
(Lori Laughs)
- Worm beds are not for people to sleep in
but, it's usually a big huge pile of garden waste manures.
And we put the worms in there
and that way I can keep 'em contained so I can catch 'em
easier.
- So do they eat cow poop?
- They eat anything that's rotting
and they produce this wonderful soil
which we call worm poop.
You wanna touch some worm poop?
- Yeah, I actually do kind of wanna touch some worm poop.
- Are you ready to get your hands dirty?
- Yeah. - Yes.
- It's alright
- I'm gonna be pouring my eyes out.
- They won't hurt you.
Are you ready?
(girl squeals)
Here's your wad of worms.
(girl squeals)
- Oh (laughs)
- There you go.
(Miko and Lori laugh)
- They're kind of slimy feeling, aren't they?
- It's cold.
- They're cute!
- See these little skinny ones?
Those are the babies there.
- [Miko] Aww.
- [Lori] And see that little white looking hair there?
- [Girl] Mhm
- [Lori] That is a new egg.
Which a new worm will be born.
- Boy, they're so cool. - They're skinny and small.
- It's so slimy.
- They're really slimy.
- How many worms do you have?
- Boy, I'd say on the farm, thousands, maybe millions.
- This is Ted.
- Ted, okay.
- And this is Sandy.
This is San Diego.
(Lori laughs)
- They are all named and happy now.
(girl squealing)
- How do worms breathe underground?
- They absorb oxygen through their skin and when they wiggle
around and make holes, that's where the air is for 'em.
- Have you ever eaten a worm?
- Not that I know of. But
- Have you eaten their poop?
- I haven't eaten the poop 'cause that's good dirt.
I don't like to eat dirt.
- How do they make babies? - Oh boy
- I can't tell from the butt and the head.
- They actually wrap themselves around each other
and when I find one that is wrapped around the other one
I will leave it be.
'Cause that means they're gonna make more babies.
- Oh, they're reproducing.
- Yes.
- When you get fertilizer,
aren't you just getting worm poop?
- Most fertilizers have chemicals in them.
This does not have any chemicals in it
so it's not gonna hurt the environment.
- So worms are really good
for an environment, even though they can be weird
and disgusting.
- Yes.
- I think it'd be pretty cool if I did it, so.
- Make a homemade worm farm?
- [Boy] mhm
- [Lori] You can do that.
Would you like some worms to take home to put
in your garden?
- Yeah.
- Awesome!
Here we are.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Now, grab a nice handful.
- Then you get worms.
(laughing)
- And there's a little bit of compostables in there
so they have some food to eat.
- If you're like done with your vegetables or something
you can just like put 'em in the soil.
- Yep, you can put 'em in the soil.
They will eat it as soon as it gets soft enough.
- If my mom gets angry at me that I took home worms
what should I do with them?
- You can turn 'em loose in the yard.
- We have a lot of weeds in the yard.
- That's okay. They go around the roots.
- Worm farmers.
- Yay!
- Our pet worms!
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- [Interviewer] Today we're gonna look at Da Vinci Kids app.
It has a ton of games and videos for kids to
watch that are great ways to learn about new subjects.
- That's really cool.
- [Girl] Looks like they're episodes of glass,
tractors, windows.
- Science Max! I've seen it before.
- [Interviewer] You've seen Science Max before?
Oh, let's click on it!
- Cool.
- [Girl] Ooh, this looks super fun!
- Bird kite.
- You want to watch bird kite?
- Sure.
Now, that's quite the bird.
- Do you think you'll check out Da Vinci Kids App at home?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Yes, I will too.
- It will keep me busy at home.
- [Interviewer] Exactly.
- Yeah.
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