About Us

Holistic Problem-Solving

Founders Sam Baker & Gabe DeGalia created WriggleBrew to solve an issue called Red Tide, aka toxic algae blooms that occur in rivers, lakes, and oceans due to our overuse of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.

That issue sparked a bigger question: Can we make a fertilizer that includes everything a plant needs to grow better than a synthetic fertilizer, while improving soil health and preventing infestations?

Plants have very specific needs and right now people are buying 3 or more products just to meet them! (and many of those don't work)

Research, Testing Research

Inspired by a youtube video, Sam & Gabe took months raising worms, testing castings, researching microbes, growing (and killing) plants, testing existing products, and talking to farmers.

They realized that high quality worm castings couldn’t do it all- not in a way that could reach potentially billions of people. Different batches of worm castings all had different levels of bacterial activity, and some were not safe for humans to touch with their bare hands!

Then came a year of testing different sterilization techniques to selectively keep the good bacteria and get rid of the bad and finally, we found a way to put those good microbes into a stasis while in the bottle that awaken as soon as they hit soil. That means there are microbes in every drop of Growth & Rescue!

Worms Bacteria Fungi and...Lobsters?

Gabe, a chemist with a strong interest and knowledge of biology, leaned into the research surrounding the symbiotic relationships between plants, bacteria, fungi, and even beneficial insects. He learned how plants have an immune system, just like us, that fights off diseases and pests to keep the plant healthy.

This research is what created the formula known as WriggleBrew Growth & Rescue. An award-winning, proven fertilizer that has the potential to change how food is grown world wide. How cool is that?

The Worm Leaders

  • Sam Baker

    Sam is WriggleBrew's founder and owner. Sam studied chemistry alongside Gabe at UCF (and later economics), where they developed the Growth & Rescue formula and started the business.

  • Gabriel DeGalia

    Gabe is WriggleBrew's chief researcher and the original inventor of many of its components. Gabe studied biochemistry at UCF and microbiology at a genetics lab in Madrid, Spain. He runs the lab and quality assurance experiments to keep Growth & Rescue at the pinnacle of plant efficacy.

  • Nan Moreno

    Nan is the heart of our visual presence online and in the store. She is the artist, web designer, social media manager and part-time customer service head who keeps WriggleBrew true to its honest and transparent branding.

  • Colin Kruger

    Colin is the bookkeeper, accountant and logistician that keeps WriggleBrew operational. Thanks to his efforts, the lights stay on, the bills get paid, the worms keep pooping!

  • Italo Rangel

    Italo is the engineer behind most of WriggleBrew's production, bottling, bagging, boxing, and fulfillment. Thanks to his craftiness, WriggleBrew has been able to scale production efficiently, independently, and in an eco-conscious way.

  • The Worms

    Our unstoppable army of all-consuming wriggling friends. The horde is ever-growing; there is no escape.