CNN Great American Stories: America’s First Edible Cricket Farm
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Bugging out: America’s first edible cricket farm
Sept 9, 2015 Rachel Crane CNN Is it a fad, or is it the future? Rachel Crane visits Big Cricket Farms, the nation’s first edible cricket farm to find out what everyone’s bugging out about. Source: CNN Read more….
Eating Insects. Overcoming the Western Yuck Factor to Harvest Benefits
By Lisa Lupo August 13, 2015 Quality Assurance Magazine Most food companies are concerned with insects as adulterants in the products they produce. But a new wave of food products is intentionally including insects and labeling them as a key ingredient in the food. To expose the industry to this evolving food option, this QA …
Criadores de insectos comestibles buscan mayor eficiencia en la producción
By Alicia Clegg El Economista July 15th, 2015 Big Cricket Farms en Ohio ha ideado un sistema de bombeo para el riego de las crías de grillos sin ahogarlos, e incorpora tecnología del siglo XXI. “Utilizamos impresión en 3D para la mayor parte de nuestra creación de prototipos”, dice el cofundador Kevin Bachhuber. Otras preocupaciones de los criadores de …
OTBS Big Cricket Farms
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WHY YOUNGSTOWN HAS THE BEST INCUBATOR IN THE WORLD
By: James F. Sweeney June 11, 2015 id8nation The giant banner hangs on the side of the brick building, partially obscuring the faded white lettering left over from when the structure housed a furniture store, back when the city imagined a different kind of future. The banner reads “Ranked #1 Best Incubator in the World …
A Youngstown farm that stands apart from others
SHERRY KARABIN Legal News Reporter Published: May 21, 2015 Akron Legal News Once ravaged by the loss of the steel industry, the city of Youngstown is now becoming known for its innovative businesses and efforts at revitalization. So when Kevin Bachhuber and Jaci Ampulski were looking for a spot to start the first urban cricket …
THE RISE OF THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE INSECT
By Brooke Borel May 12, 2015 Popular Science During the last weeks of winter, in an airy kitchen at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, two design students are making cocktail bitters. A long wooden table holds mason jars and gleaming bottles of bourbon, vodka, and neutral grain spirits. The fragrance of …
Eating Bugs Has Never Been More Popular, But Will It Ever Go Mainstream?
05/06/2015 10:21 am ET | Updated May 06, 2015 Joseph Erbentraut The Huffington Post A future in which cricket chips could be found on the shelves of an American grocery store next to their potato- and corn-based peers might not be that far off — or at least that’s the hope of a number of …
Can insects go from pests to popular snack foods?
AP Wire The Washington Post April 16th, 2015 They hop. They crawl. They squirm. And they could be coming to a dinner plate near you. An increasing number of “entopreneurs” are launching businesses to feed a growing appetite for crickets, mealworms and other edible insects. (“Ento” comes from the Greek word for insect.) These …