She micro farms her own crickets and makes nutritious goodies for people…it says she decided to do it t his January after listening to several podcasts about it.
We can only hope one of them was ours…
Shelby Smith, owner of Gym-n-Eat Crickets (a pun on the name of the cricket character in “Pinocchio”,) has run the operation since January out of the small side room in her parent’s equipment garage. Currently, she has about 50,000 crickets in her possession. Smith spent her early career working in finance, something she said didn’t fulfill her personally. She returned to her parents’ farm last October to help with the harvest and decided she wanted to get into farming, but didn’t want to get into the crowded market of corn and soybean producers. After listening to several podcasts where the hosts spoke about the health benefits of crickets, Smith decided to go all in on the bug in the middle of January.
Click here to read the full article “Crickets add new chirp to farming” by Dan Mika for The Gazette.
