Would you eat a mealworm? Bob Simpson hopes your answer is yes — or that you’d at least feed some to your chickens. Simpson owns Vermont Mealworm Farm, where he raises roughly 2.4 million of the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont’s Farm to Plate Network is working to create a more sustainable food system as part of a region-wide effort to increase New England’s food production by 30% by 2030.

Food enthusiasts interested in sustainable farm practices may soon have a new meat alternative: insects. Beetle larvae (called mealworms) farms produce more edible protein than traditional farms for ...

I had the hardest time titling this post and project. What would you call it? Mealworms don’t “grow” like a vegetable and you don’t really “raise” them either. Mostly, you throw them in a box and hope ...

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The Edible Insect Desktop Hive will let you raise your own mealworms for meals within the comfort of your kitchen. A Kickstarter project belonging to an Austrian woman named Katharina Unger, the ...

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In research published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, University of Delaware graduate student Ben Sammarco, UD faculty member Michael Crossley and the University of Georgia’s Nancy ...

Last time I was in Hong Kong, a startup gave me a jar of mealworms as a snack. They were crunchy and a bit odd looking (as one might expect from a jar full of baked larvae). They really didn’t offer ...

In today’s world, where every step toward sustainability counts, this acquisition marks a bold move toward achieving Hatching Time’s goals. "We want to offer sustainable solutions for backyard poultry ...

Food enthusiasts interested in sustainable farm practices may soon have a new meat alternative: insects. Beetle larvae (called mealworms) farms produce more edible protein than traditional farms for ...