Touch the Soil News #1880 (Feature Photo – Black Soldier Fly Larvae – Public Domain) Building a protein production business based upon insects is what inspired entrepreneur Pat Crowley. Facing headwinds as to supplies and markets for an emerging industry, Pat is hanging in there and it’s an interesting story. AgFunder news interviews Pat Crowley…
Touch the Soil News #1838 (Feature Photo – Soldier Fly – GNU Free Doc License) Agfunder news brings us the story of a foreign company – FlyFeed. Flyfeed just got $3 million in venture capital to mass reproduce black soldier fly larvae for protein, by feeding them food waste. The first project is for…
Touch the Soil News #1724 (Feature Photo – A Group of Insects – CCA 1.0 Generic, DirkvdM) With insect proteins getting more and more attention – and money for development – what should consumers be concerned with. Following is a short video from Consumer Labs on cricket powders and what they found. It probably is…
Touch the Soil News #1701 (Feature Photo – Mealworms – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Pengo) FastCompany journalist Adele Peters brings an amazing story about the future use of insects as protein feed for fish and animals. A company called Ynsect is building the world’s largest indoor insect farm after attracting hundreds of million of dollars…
