Little Herds president and founder Robert Nathan Allen with his DIY mealworm farms. Credit: Courtesy of Robert Nathan Allen & Little Herds Sometimes the best way to save a buck on feed is to make it ...

An alternative source of protein is finding its way onto more dinner tables around the world, and it includes all the essential amino acids and is rich in protein, fibre, potassium and phosphorus: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle area’s only commercial insect farm is home to tens of millions of wriggling creatures at various stages of development. Walls of heavy plastic sheeting and stacked trays help ...