Our friend Wendy Lu McGill from Rocky Mountain Micro Farm touts edible bugs on the local news. Wendy Lu has been a guest on the podcast a couple of times.
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She raises hundreds of thousands of crickets and mealworms (baby beetles) to sell to restaurants and vendors all over the country. The idea to open the farm came after years of working overseas in a practice called rural development. She traveled the word studying ways to use available resources to be healthy and sustainable. Eating bugs was a good solution. “Crickets have as much iron as spinach, by weight, as much calcium of milk, as much B12 as salmon, and then really high levels of zinc and magnesium,” McGill said.
