{"id":16355,"date":"2014-04-03T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16355"},"modified":"2014-04-03T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:52:22","slug":"grow-edible-insects-open-bug-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/grow-edible-insects-open-bug-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow Your Own Edible Insects: the Open Bug Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You might expect to see people eating bugs on some reality show competition, but certainly not in homes or restaurants… right? Think again – the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations promotes the idea<\/a>, and foodies in the Western world<\/a> are trying out a variety of edible insects. These little critters are chock-full of nutrition, and require little space, effort or expense for farming. Compare this to, say, growing a cow or a pig yourself, and you’ll understand why 2 billion people around the world already practice\u00a0entomophagy<\/a> (the fancy word for “eating bugs”).<\/p>\n

But do you just go out into the yard and start picking up the bugs you find? No – that wouldn’t be very efficient. Insects do reproduce quickly, though, so a system for farming them could produce quite a bit of edible protein in a relatively short amount of time. That’s the idea underlying the Open Bug Farm<\/a>, a open-source insect production system created by startup Tiny Farms<\/a>. I’ll let them explain:<\/p>\n