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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) — A Wisconsin native has opened a business in Youngstown, but it’s not a bar, restaurant or retail shop.
It is a warehouse near Star Supply on Mahoning Avenue, close to downtown, where crickets are being raised for humans to eat. That’s right, edible crickets.
The business is called Big Cricket Farms and none of the company’s major players are from the Youngstown area.
The company’s founder, Kevin Bachhuber, 29, is from Wisconsin. He was introduced to eating dried crickets during a 2006 visit to Thailand, which got him thinking about bringing the idea to America.
