I know someone who did, and it got me interested in the idea. Turns out about a $100 investment, followed by about $10-20 a week, gets you started with 200 crickets and returns about 15 pounds of cricket per week - 120 grams of protein per day. As someone who has to be extremely restrictive with carbs (I can't really even eat beans), that's a *huge* jump in frugality for me from the other things I can actually eat. And I'm thinking finding some way to sell the surplus and run the whole thing essentially for free, maybe even at a small profit, shouldn't be that difficult. Dehydrate then blend and sell as protein powder, or sell them as bait...

The problem I'm running into with my personal set-up, in a small house with no basement in an extremely hot area in the mountains with bears and snakes et cetera everywhere, is how to both regulate their temperature (you have to keep them at 86 degrees; heat lamps would normally do the trick), keep out the noise, *and* keep attracted predators away. If I had a basement, it'd be no sweat.

nope

Crickets were taking off for awhile and some disease wiped out a ****ton of the larger farms like 10 years ago.

It’s a good future for proteins especially compared with the dangers as far as hormone changes etc from soy based printed meat alternatives.

You eat the entire animal so zero waste as opposed to the amount of resources going into raising a cow and the large amount of waste of in eaten final product.

Fun statistics in a blind taste test 9/10 people PREFERRED an earthworm meatball over a veal meatball (smoother texture)

Post your source, sounds like BS

Why not just get chickens? You can get ones already laying eggs for $5 and 50lbs of feed for $20. Each chicken only eats about 1/2 cup a day

This thread is groce

How much protein is in one cricket? Srs

I absolutely will. I will be starting a roach farm as soon as I move out and selling them on ebay (certain kinds of roaches that people feed to lizards) as a form of making some easy income. I also will farm crickets for protein

This is one of those things people will call stupid, they will make fun of you for, say it won't work, but fukk those people dude, if you've done the research and it looks like a good idea then you should do it, and after reading ur OP I'm gonna look into cricket farms