Startup Mighty Cricket, which has developed consumer food products using protein sourced from crickets, has been awarded federal funds it plans to use to establish a local cricket farm. St.

A herd of cows, a flock of sheep, a row of crops — all are recognizable farming terms, none of which apply to Joanna Newcomb's farming operation. That's because Newcomb raises crickets. For food.

AMES — The tiny crickets Shelby Smith raises for her company, Gym-N-Eat Crickets, aren’t going to solve the big problem of climate change. But to produce the same amount of protein, crickets take six ...

Stella Maina speaks of cricket farming as she showcases some of the dried insects and products from the milled high nutrient food. The desire to diversify sources of nutrition and improve the ...

When you’re on the frontier of food – a land full of experimentation – sometimes you have to sleep with the lights on. Jakub Dzamba, a Ph.D. candidate at McGill’s architecture school, was ...

DEFOREST, Wis. — Kevin Bachhuber is not your average Midwest farmer. He’s a cricket farmer who has about two million crickets, hatching about 500,000 a week. It’s not exactly what he had hoped for as ...

In the arid regions of Northern Kenya, where pastoralism has been a way of life for centuries, women are looking for alternative livelihoods. Faced with the devastating impacts of climate change, ...

Rosemary Nenini watched helplessly as her husband’s cattle perished daily during a drought that lasted from 2020 to 2022.