Taking the food people waste that usually gets thrown away, and turning it into food for insects who’s larvae become animal feed.
One of the c-founders of GrubTubs, Robert Nathan Allen (RNA), spent some time with us on the podcast, check it out.
Think through the whole process…among other things, this reduces the dependence on crops like soy to supplement animal feed, which uses lots of water and land space. As a matter of fact, farming things like soy for animal feed take up 70% of the farm space, to be exact.
Black Soldier Flies? Not so much water or space.
The biggest cost in the farming industry is animal feed. Even with the rise in popularity of farm to table restaurants, direct to home produce and farmer’s markets, many family farmers are reinvesting their revenue right into animal feed. Also, animal feed is a big burden on farm acreage. Animal feed takes up around 70% of the farm acreage. At the same time, American’s waste an estimated 133 billion pounds of food annually. Wasted food ends up in landfills where it can have a negative impact on the environment. What if there was a way to help cut back some of this wasted food and solve the animal feed problem at the same time? That’s exactly what GrubTubs does.
Stick around Ento Nation and you’ll hear and read more and more about the future of Black Soldier Flies (BSF). In the next episode of the Ento Nation podcast we will speak with Black Soldier Fly expert Dr. Jeffery Tomberlin, of the Texas A&M Entomology Dept. Talk about BSF knowledge…
