This channel focuses on both, exploring food-insect farming technologies, and the architecture and urban planning changes that grafting Third Millennium Farming technologies onto cities would create. Third Millennium Farming (3MF) is a radical new approach to urban agriculture. 3MF is about utilizing city bio-wastes, such as grey water and sewage, to farm micro-crops, such as algae and grass. Micro-crops are fed to micro-livestock (insects), which are then humanely euthanized, baked and pulverized into a high-protein flour. Insect-flour is being used in culinary experiments by chefs all around the world to create meat analogues, pasta dough, soup/sauce bases and baked goods.
at 0:55 im having a problem with making the foundation walls. as it shows an error message stating that none of my walls are visible in floorplan view: footing. check constraints. and then when i check the model in perspective view or isometric, the wall is 1000mm or somehting in height with a gap of mybe 1500mm from the base of the house to the top of the foundation wall. btw nice cricket farm.
Hi Kubo! Thank you for this video. Where did you source the materials for this? Did you fabricate everything yourself? If your fans were interested in making the switch to a sustainable food source, where could they get this stuff?
Just an FYI, I've been working on a related edible insect farming concept that would allow new modes of farming in space. The BRAVO channel just released an award winning short doc about my work on Cricket-Reactors: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rwseLmEKKZw.html
Just an FYI, the BRAVO channel just released an award winning short doc about Third Millennium Farming's progress: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rwseLmEKKZw.html
Just an FYI, the BRAVO channel just released an award winning short doc about Third Millennium Farming's progress: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rwseLmEKKZw.html
Just an FYI, the BRAVO channel just released an award winning short doc about Third Millennium Farming's progress: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rwseLmEKKZw.html
Just an FYI, the BRAVO channel just released an award winning short doc about Third Millennium Farming's progress: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rwseLmEKKZw.html
Hi, first of all, great job! And i'm realy interested in that project, and I want to begin by the begening, but your web site seam to be down or something..? I would realy like to know more about that. thanks.
Hi Jeremie, Hopefully the website is working again by now. At the moment, we're gearing up to release our first product - a domestic cricket-reactor. It's available on the website, and we're currently looking for people that are willing to help us test out the product and provide feedback. In a very small way, the cricket-reactor realizes the theoretical food chain predicted by 3MF. The cricket-reactor utilizes domestic bio-waste streams to farm food-grade crickets at a household level. As a result, it embodies the four axioms of 3MF: 1) Smaller Foodprint, 2) Organic, 3) Ethical and 4) Decentralized. Feel free to let me know if there's anything else I can try to answer!
Hi Heather, It can get quite bad, especially if you have more than a hundred or so and/or if you keep it in your home (ie. kitchen, living room). I've designed a cricket-reactor is designed to be a home cricket-farm. It uses a simple herding mechanism that allows you to easily evacuate the crickets from one habitat into another. Once the habitat is evacuated, it's safe to open it, and to clean it, without crickets escaping. The habitat is completely waterproof - so just spray wash it, let it dry, and reconnect it. The cleaning and feeding process is designed to take less than 10 minutes per day, and allows you to keep high densities of crickets, living happily, and without any smell. If you happen to be interested in the project, or would like a cricket-reactor, more info is available about it here: thirdmillenniumfarming.com/15.%20Home%20Page%20Update/01.html.
Great project! I have a question to the video, you talk about that 100cal feedstuff produces 7-10cal of "beefmeet" or 50cal of "cricketmeet". How is meat defined? And how is the difference in protein content for "cowmeat" vs "cricketmeat". Once again great project, I'm going to search for published articles on the subject of crickets as a human foodsource. I'm especially interested in risks concerning foodsafty, transferable diseases and possibilities for contamination during the farming and production of for example cricket protein flour. // Veterinary/FoodScience Student.
Hi ainons1, Apologies for my delay in replying. I'll try to be better with that in the future. Defining meat is a tricky question - and it leads to discrepancies in researchers findings. Meat is often defined as the edible portion of the animal's live-weight. Typically cows are considered about 40% meat. I believe that adult crickets are typically considered at least 80% meat. A frequent source of discrepancies is that insect meat and/or nutritional numbers are often given as a percentage of dry weight. The real experts in this area would be the guys from Next Millennium Farms (www.nextmillenniumfarms.com/). They are the first company in Canada that has been approved by the CFIA to sell insects as food to the public.
Sounds great. What would you need to build something basic yourself? I'd also be interested to try and set up a diverse ecosystem, more for education than actual food. Thoughts?
Hi Hydrix, I've created an open source version of the cricket-reactor, which can be found on my website at: thirdmillenniumfarming.com/15.%20Home%20Page%20Update/01.html. The full project will be available for download, along with a public forum, on July 1st. The cricket-reactor operation can be connected to a small garden operation - as the cricket frass (poop and exoskeletons) make excellent fertilizer. Please don't hesitate to shoot me an email if you'd like to talk further!
Kubo Dzamba Hey, I was looking into insect farming again so I visited your site. The links for the laser cut files didn't work...Do you have a new website or other ideas about DIY insect growing?
Hey girafe, Thanks for the comment! We're actually setting up people across North America with cricket-reactors prototypes as a pilot test of the technology. If you'd be interested in participating maybe we could talk more. If you'd like to get in touch, my email is kubo [at] thirdmillenniumfarming [dot] com. Cheers, Jake
Exellent that is a great project. I will be your first client! I need them for my iguana! I used to raise some criquets myself but i couldn't evacuate easily their pooh. Good luck for the hygene in your breeding place! Looking forward to taste :-)
Oh, and I've lost count of how many times I've eaten crickets. I'm pretty sure that I've eaten several thousand crickets by now. But, crickets seem to be emerging as the "gateway bug" for people interested in entomophagy. There's literally thousands of other edible insects out there that are highly nutritious, healthy, easy to farm, and some that even have medicinal properties.
My current focus is on bringing cricket-farms to market that: 1) Maintain a high level of hygiene within the cricket farm via waste removal mechanisms. 2) Allow the user to utilize perishable foods as feed for the crickets. This is accomplished by allowing the user easily insert/remove foods without allowing the crickets to escape.
Hi Leif, and thanks for the comment, You are absolutely correct that what goes in must come out. My underlying principle for feeding food-grade insects is that their feed must always be organic. I've experimented with feeding my crickets blends made of organic household scraps, such as organic yard waste and vegetable/fruit scraps (apple cores, etc.). More experimentation is needed to develop micro-crops farming technologies that will safely utilize various types of waste water as inputs.
Hi Thomas, thanks for the comment! Humans have included insects in their diets for thousands of years, our bodies are fully capable of processing them, and physiologically speaking, there isn't anything unnatural about it. But you're right, there is an "ick" factor. We think one of the best methods for overcoming this taboo is to celebrate them - to experiment with insect flours, pates and meat analogues. Feel free to check out Future Food Salon (link my video's description) for more on that.
you have also neglected that what goes in must come out. if you feed animals bad sustenance you only get bad thing in return. you suggest feeding crickets industrial waste products and other undesirable elements. well you take the first bite. its looking pretty obvious that vegetarian is the way to go for sustainability. as a side note im just curious. how many cricket based meals have you eaten?
