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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 …
Bugs for Dinner: Big Cricket Farms Find Niche in Edible Insect Farming
April 16, 2015 Rose Egelhoff SeedStock Kevin Bachhuber. Courtesy of Big Cricket Farms Rich in protein and requiring relatively few resources to raise, the United Nations says insects should be on our plates. Though bugs make up part of a healthy, diverse diet in many non-Western cultures, Americans and Europeans generally consider eating insects …
We’ve Cleared an Area the Size of South America to Grow Enough Crops to Feed The World’s Population
Janaki Jitchotvisut Apr 3, 2015 First We Feast How will we continue to feed the world’s growing population? Where is our food going to come from in 2050? These are both valid questions with many different answers. Collectively.org’s eye-opening new short documentary America’s Shrinking Farms aims to raise awareness of the issues, and possible solutions, in play right now. The …
Cricket Farmer Says Consumers Developing Taste For Insects
2015 – Volume #39, Issue #1, Page #08 Farm Show Cricket Farmer Says Consumers Developing Taste For Insects Could crickets be coming to a grocery store near you? Maybe, says Kevin Bachhuber, owner of Big Cricket Farms in Youngstown, Ohio. While most of the producers who raise crickets sell them for bait and animal feed, Bachhuber raises …
America’s Shrinking Farms Trailer
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