Longreads"Alafogiannis’s parents had once been in the worm business. 'And they couldn’t afford babysitters,' he tells me, 'so I was picking worms at 10 years old.'
—Inori Roy for The Local
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On the Hunt for Nightcrawlers in the Worm-Picking Capital of the World | The Local
Nearly all bait worms sold in North America are hand-plucked from farmland in this part of Canada. But with labour shortages and climate change, some worry we’re witnessing the final wiggles of a once thriving business.