The Business of Commercial Black Soldier Fly Larvae Production

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What is the potential behind raising black soldier fly larvae on scale? Well we asked Zach Brooks of Arizona Worm Farm to take us around his operation and give us an idea of how it works and the business potential of this protein. Also we get to see their thermal heated greenhouse, which is super rad.
This video explores: raising black soldier fly larvae for chickens, using the black soldier fly larvae frass, show an example of insect protein, using black soldier fly larvae in the gardens, how much space you need to raise black soldier fly larvae, and more
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@KK7THK 2 года назад

No kidding about the 500x production in a week! I have two open top compost bins in my back yard. In one month, they’ve gone from a couple hundred to over (11) 5-gallon buckets of larvae. Sure, my neighbors think the flies are termites (can’t educate everyone) but no one knows I’m the host yard! No compost odor, they eat everything (and I mean EVERYTHING- we have a dog ( 💩), we eat meat so that goes in, dairy, leftovers, cardboard, hair, vacuum contents (I own a cleaning business- I collect gallons of dirt and hair a day) - everything. But the neighbors have no clue. My kids love to feed them and “Mr. and Mrs. Worm”, and I have never seen more beautiful vegetables in my garden as I have this year. Thanks for the video- this is what I was looking for!

@TheRainHarvester Год назад

Will they eat leaves or grass?

@KK7THK Год назад

@@TheRainHarvester absolutely :) mix them into your pile and they’ll be with you all season!

@dagobaker 7 месяцев назад

@@KK7THK im still trying to grasp this....... i do compost outdoors and earthworms indoors.... maybe i should b doing this in my garden and orchard? im still absorbing this how did you get started?

@daddycool7543 4 месяца назад

Thankyou for sharing your experience. I am thinking of starting my own totally off grid homestead and this was so helpful

@KK7THK 4 месяца назад

@@dagobaker I just started with one Geobin for our back yard- and it quickly grew to three. I turn the piles over pretty often to keep things burning, and the larvae don't seem to mind. I didn't do anything to attract them- they just appeared!

@gblan 2 года назад

I work in the produce dept of a large grocery chain. The amount of we throw away every day is staggering. Could easily support an operation like this many times over.

@ECMVAQ137 2 года назад

My cousin works with a DEPAC that takes SEMI loads of expired foods, peanuts, meat, berries ALL of the stuff people shop for. 1/2 Million dollar machine separates the organics from in-organics and I mean LOTS of it. Some goes to Michigan State University Anaerobic Digestion and some to compost site, we are taking LOTS of food!! Sad part by law it must all be destroyed with this process called the DEPAC.

@agoogleaccount2861 2 года назад

Well. Looks like you just found your sidd hustle. Or it found you

@syndrome5372 2 года назад

I'm guessing you're right at the bottom of the chain in the company, since you don't understand the economics of your own business or how economics works in general. It's a really stupid idea that a lot of people repeat without really thinking about it. The shit don't get thrown away because it's good to eat, it's because it's past its expiry and therefore illegal to sell. You are not ALLOWED to sell products past their expiry date for any reason and could open yourself to law suits and possibly even losing your business license. Everyone just wants something for free and thinks its morally right to have it free if it's going in the bin anyway. It's not going in the bin because it's perfectly fine and can be sold. It's because in another day or 2 it is going to be totally rotten, and customers would go crazy if the food they bought yesterday wasn't edible and bring, again, more lawsuits and they could lose their business license. It goes in the bin for a reason, and it's not to be selfish.

@syndrome5372 2 года назад

@@agoogleaccount2861 stealing expired food from your workplaces dumpster and selling it to farmers for agricultural/commercial purposes? Yeah, can't see any way that backfires 🤣🤣🤣

@MrIanHulstein 2 года назад

@@syndrome5372 Why couldnt the waste from a grocery store (produce past best before and not fit for human consumption) be sold to someone running a larva operation like in this video? Not suggesting that a normal worker 'steal' it, but whats to stop these insect farmers making a mutually beneficial partnership with grocers? Thats what gblan was suggesting.

@Being_Joe 2 года назад

Learning that soldier fly poop tricking plants into defending themselves alone is worth watching this video

@desalegnem 5 месяцев назад

Great

@marieelizabeth3716 2 года назад

I started farming these this year. My chickens go nuts for these! Definitely saves on feed costs. It's a win win.

@mdbiplob2897 Год назад

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@roryhogan6564 Год назад

Do you know how much waste by weight the consume?

@user-03-gsa3 11 месяцев назад

nice

@pengkurohandal248 2 месяца назад

@@roryhogan6564from many data, its like 10-30% kg waste to kg weight of larva maggot, because a lot organic waste mostly water. In Indonesia you can get 30% waste to body weight, if use dry waste from palm oil or tofu waste production

@mauricebrown9094 2 года назад

I really liked this video and the owners honesty, and facts about how to go about starting. His honesty and passion for his garden is inspiring . Good on you pal. No Pesticides , fertilizers etc etc, I'm with you pal.

@nancyfahey7518 2 года назад

@@Vscustomprinting what are you talking about? You grow an over abundance in the least expensive but nutritional way and take it to mkt. to fund the next year. You make enought to stick in your pocket then good for you. A smart farmer only uses it to expand. And sharing that knowledge for free, imho, is brownie points with the man upstairs.

@Anamewhowasnottaken 2 года назад

agreed

@ECMVAQ137 2 года назад

@@james_thegirl With worms they increase quality of INPUT in castings, so if it's low quality scraps they still make castings only the better the source the better than product coming out..sorta speak. Worms eat biology (bugs) if the microbes are plenty and eating good sources the WORMS simply take all of that and increase it's value. PS: Worm castings are the ONLY compost matter that a plant can start using a food source "instantly" when the roots come in contact. 40 years of worm bins trying things and learning it is amazing what the "tiger worm" can doo doo.

@syndrome5372 2 года назад

I'll take the pesticide and fertilisers over eating literal flies that have been raised on a diet of "trash" in the dudes own words. Hard pass. Absolutely fucking disgusting.

@mrbrown6421 2 года назад

@@syndrome5372 Funny guy. Not sure how chickens eat "pesticide and fertilisers". "You will eats Bugz and be Happy" - WEF - Klaus Schwab If you are not familiar with WEF, sir, I strongly recommend you spend a moment examining a future being planned without your input. Many thanks for your comments. Mr. Brown

@tomasviane3844 2 года назад

The "Straight outta Compost" T-shirt is pretty hilarious. Well done with the farm. That's the way we have to move for protein production!!

@jasonm7973 2 года назад

Eat the bugs! 😉

@Marigold-ip3gw 7 месяцев назад

NOT for human consumption 🤮

@wavemancali 2 года назад

That owner is bad ass. I love how his goal is to feed his people first. This is someone who you want to work for.

@James02876 2 года назад

Very interesting to see an example of a business choosing sustainability over profitability, with a profound understanding of what humanity is going to have to accomplish in order to continue to thrive. Also a big fan of the "straight out of compost" shirt!

@TheSnekkerShow 2 года назад

This is great, I've been seeing them in my compost for years. At first I was concerned, but then I noticed that my compost tumbler suddenly stopped smelling bad and the big chunks of solid food garbage had been almost liquified. I put a few shovels full on some of my plants to see if the larvae ate the roots or otherwise harmed the plants, but all of those plants thrived. I look forward to them coming back every year.

@AnnaBananaRepublic Год назад

His thought process is the REAL value in this video. What a logical mind 🖤🔥 intelligence is sexy

@jeancampbell4341 2 года назад

Its so wonderful that there are people like you in the world. Well done. A more humane way to feed chickens.

@tilapiadave3234 2 года назад

Humane ? Microwaving live insects ,,, I guess your definition of humane is quite wide

@NorthWestAutos 2 года назад

@@tilapiadave3234 hakuna matata friend

@meoff7602 2 года назад

Yeah, I wouldn't go with humane. I would go with healthier.

@aaaaa359 Год назад

How is any other way any less humane? Chickens will literally eat rats if they can

@50jakecs Год назад

I'm not a farming type of person but I love how they're trying to create a self-sustaining system. I really like how they can take food waste to feed the larva.

@verairemonger1260 5 месяцев назад

Will you be so keen when they want you to eat the insects? Because they are already appearing in both human and pet food, and like that other scandal involving our food supply, halal, you will not be told, they will not be open and honest about it, they will stick it in anyway, whether you want it or not. And you don't want it.

@129328 Год назад

Had no intentions of watching the entire video BUT the video was so interesting I did!!! Fantastic job!!! Stay awesome!!

@cassityart7001 2 года назад

Really great detailed information! Thank you. ❤️🌱🌞🐛. We discovered black flies on our compost pile outside of the hen yard. The hens were eating the larva that crawled into the hen yard of death. 🐓. This is an excellent idea specifically for hens as a natural protein. We now grow our own grain/seeds.

@kathychildress18 2 года назад

I couldn't raise them to creepy, I'm not afraid of insects but maggots are efficient creatures but not for me

@mikefeddersen2476 2 года назад

Check out the chicken raisers that bring roadkill home, put it in a bucket with a hole in the bottom, then place it over the chicken run. :)

@Dysiode 2 года назад

I was super impressed by everything in the video up to the greenhouse, but my mind is COMPLETELY blown that he has a fruiting banana tree in Arizona of all places. Such an amazing system!

@j.b.4340 2 года назад

Soldier Fly larvae are incredible workers. Millions of them (wild) keep the area under my quail pens clean, and odor free. We don't feed them to the chickens because of our need for them. We buy dried ones from suppliers...even though we have millions. They crawl everywhere after rains. I frequently find them in the house. They are treated with respect in my yard.

@kathychildress18 2 года назад

He's definitely got a point

@НемањаРашевић 2 года назад

So you let them in your garden? They don't eat your vegetables?

@mdbiplob2897 Год назад

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@firstname-qq3xp Год назад

@@НемањаРашевић the flies dont have mouths. so no.

@neepsmcfly4176 Год назад

Sounds almost like a simplified version of geothermal temperature control. Edit: ah! I found it for those who are interested... It's called GAHT, or ground to air heat transfer system.

@suprvideo 2 года назад

Really enjoyed this. Ingenious farming with a very low ecological footprint. He explains it really well.

@stevejava4336 Год назад

Yummy 😋 Years a ago when I was a young guy. An old farmer said " just hang a mouse or two from the rafters of your coop, then when the maggots get ready they will crawl out of the mouse to the waiting chickens. " Those was the good ol day's. Yes it worked.

@CoreenT 2 года назад

One day in 2020 I opened my compost bin and was horrified to find it full of "maggots". 😱 So I googled maggots in compost and discovered I had actually been blessed with black soldier flies! 😄 Haven't seen 'em yet this year. 😢 I hope they show up again.

@dwardodwardo643 2 года назад

But for producing compost I think they are removing a significant amount of nitrogen. From last year to now it's amazing how they are now the new fad...but not for compost.

@nancyfahey7518 2 года назад

We were doing this 15 years ago.

@dylanminer3728 2 года назад

It may have been other flies than black solder fly

@CoreenT 2 года назад

@@dylanminer3728 I suppose that is possible, but they certainly were not regular house fly maggots and they fit the BSF description perfectly as far as I could tell. 🤷‍♀

@jessehunter362 2 года назад

@@dwardodwardo643 Sometimes. their waste is a form of manure, usable as fertilizer in it’s own right, so i suspect a decent amount of the nitrates went right back into the pile

@runnersluck4390 2 года назад

Keep spreading the word! I think Black soldier fly larvae are really one of the next big ideas in gardening!!

@catinthehat906 Год назад

They may be the answer in aquaculture as well- they can be used to feed farmed salmon, reducing or eliminating the requirement for fish meal from mackerel, sardines and anchovies.

@josearamirez2018 2 года назад

When bananas are almost full grown but still green you can make “tostones” (fried plantain/banana chips) or boil them in soups and stews. You can also purée them with garlic and make little patties fried or baked.

@mkuc6951 2 года назад

The insect frass aspect in seed growing mix is very interesting.

@hickorytomato8904 2 года назад

I have a dry composting toilet (sawdust) that along with all kitchen waste gets emptied into compost bins used to side dress my trees once cured for a year. Black soldier fly larvae are always there every year when it warm enough and my chickens love scratching through them, aerating my compost in the process. Saves a ton on feed costs 👌

@Vaselining Год назад

This is amazing to see. We produce BSF at a large scale here in Uganda. I'm glad this insect biotechnology is spreading globally!

@factstv953 Год назад

I'm planning to start BSF farm, but I can't find the eggs or the larvae to begin the production. Can you please tell me from where I can get it???

@judeowor630 9 месяцев назад

How can one get in touch with you for training

@sirsanti8408 9 месяцев назад

@@factstv953depending on where you live just get a bunch of coffee grounds and you’ll have some, they love laying their eggs in thay

@stueygewy Год назад

Outstanding video with lots of valuable information! One of my favorite nuggets of knowledge was @15:30 where they take excess heat during the hot day time (cooling effect) and efficiently store the heat underground to be released at night time when it is needed! So awesome!

@jspyrogram 2 года назад

My chickens, guineas and turkeys LOVE these! But they’re SO expensive!

@effectentertainment7882 Год назад

When i first started my worm composting journey i kept getting them and i didnt know what they were so i looked them up. Boy was that a nice surprise lol i gave up on the worms. The larva was way faster and once i figured out they sort them selfs sheesh best little guys ever.

@robertcotrell9810 2 года назад

I like that dude. I hope more and more people and businesses subscribe to his way of thinking.

@mdbiplob2897 Год назад

Here is the chanal Many many video on bsf larve ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YORItHkiY-Q.html

@JoeSimonsen 2 года назад

Everytime I compost I seem to get black soldier flies in there. It's great. I find their shells all around afterwards. I find that just having a small compost bin and by laying down leaves in the fall and wood chips keeps the soil alive all year. My neighbors tell me I should teach a class on gardening because i get so much fruit and veggies to give away. I tell them I don't do much of anything aside from keep the soil healthy.

@this_is_probably_spam Год назад

I absolutely love what they do *almost* as much as I love their t-shirts! Thanks for covering how useful insects are for composting or as protein; your professional & informative video earned you this subscriber, for sure!

@user-ic2ug8ys1z 2 года назад

😀🌱🐢 Zach your honesty and farm is amazing. This one video has so much good information and concepts. I need one of those geothermal units. Keep on moving forward and Bless you/yours.

@codelicious6590 2 года назад

Black soldier fly frass is next-level stuff man. I think there is definitely a future in the Black Soldierfly. That GHAT system blew my frickin mind too! Solar-powered fans moving the air and it really seems very very DIY-able as well! Amazing stuff this guy with the cool teeshirt is a pioneer.

@pvp6077 Год назад

I've seen a lot of expensive, overcomplicated greehouse hearings systems and this guy's was a breath of fresh air (no pun intended). Quick, simple, efficient, not ridiculously expensive, doesn't require large or expensive tools or equipment to install....... Just excellent.

@BILBO1 Год назад

Been looking for Black soldier flys for our chickens. Your explanation fits our intent. Also putting a passive geothermal system together for our small greenhouse as an experiment. I like your system as augmentation. Thanks for being so open to share. Best regards!

@janetjohnson998 2 года назад

I just started with my first 2000 larva. The are just starting to pupate. I am ridiculously excited. I have some mealworms and red wrigglers but BFS are my favorite.

@barbarapearson1653 Год назад

Update?

@georgewashington938 2 года назад

I have a large dog and put all her poop in a corner of the yard and cover with grass clippings. The other day I noticed some large flies congregating near the poop pile. At first I was concerned about having an infestation of pest flies. I noticed they were black and long bodied (very different from flies associated with livestock and house garbage). A few days later I was adding some poop to the pile and noticed the grass clippings were writhing. I am pretty sure I have black soldier flies helping me composted and decompose the dog poop pile. Really cool to see nature at work, and not having pests attracted to the dog waste. I heard that soldier flies or the larva create a natural insect repellent. The compost pile has zero flying insects around it!

@j.b.4340 2 года назад

This is it. I use them under my quail pens. Completely odor free.

@mdbiplob2897 Год назад

Here is the chanal Many many video on bsf larve ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YORItHkiY-Q.html

@conniewojahn6445 Год назад

For years, larvae inhabited my compost bins and I didn't know what they were, had never heard of Black Soldier Fly. I spent hours hand picking larvae out of my compost when I sifted it because I thought they might be bad insects and because I detest wiggly, squirmy things other than earthworms. I don't recall what made me figure out what they were, perhaps it was when I noticed big black insects which looked like flying ants in one of my compost bins, or when I saw dried larvae for sale at feed stores as chicken treats. Yes, the larvae voraciously eat kitchen scraps. This characteristic didn't enamor me to them in any way. Hate the wiggly things. I'd heard chickens love them, so I got five chickens and sure enough, they took care of them and I don't have to hand pick them anymore. Still occasionally have a batch of larvae in a compost bin, but I toss clumps of unfinished compost containing the larvae into a large plastic bin and the ladies hop in and devour them. Now that they're almost all cleaned out of my compost, I'm kinda of missing them, mostly because the two remaining chickens keep getting into the compost hoping to dig up larvae. The moral of the story is, not every bug is bad, and just because it squirms doesn't make it worthless.

@taradomican7301 2 года назад

wonderful informative video! Not just about BSFL, but holistic approach to localized approaches to organic farming and discussion of making it economically viable. thank you for the video! BSFL are not cute and cuddly, but the are wicked awesome in turning waste into something useful.

@doinacampean9132 10 месяцев назад

Mind blowing! Garbage disposal that produces protein, food for chicken and the gardens, farm that feeds the workers and thermal heated greenhouse!!! Oh, did I forget the food forest?

@jfivecoat Год назад

Just visited the worm farm today, love this place and the products they sell.

@vhmccray3705 Год назад

Straight Outta Compost! I love it! I have been running small green houses, using worms, compost and other relatively expense free means of heating and supplementing my soil for many years. I'm currently experimenting with the fertilizer produced from a bio-digester. I have bananas, date palms and a host of other tropical fruiting plants that you shouldn't be able to grow in Minnesota. But while looking for more info on supplemental chicken feed, I didn't expect to get such a great lesson on sustainable growing. Thanks for all the incite and knowledge! I've never had bananas grow that fast. the soil temp might be key! Good luck and great success!

@bijanmozafari3826 2 года назад

two fans and a thermostat,.. dude you're inspiring me

@honeybadger8942 Год назад

In my country, at this time of the year there are lots of wasps nests.The larvaes are consumed both by hens and people. They are a delicacy. I just learnt they are very expensive.

@guptabhishek 2 года назад

From the larvae farming to earth cooling, this guy is successfully implementing so many sustainable cutting edge ideas

@88arakvita Год назад

This is awesome wish this way of farming and gardening was more popular or share with rural farmers in neighboring countries . Greetings from Minneapolis Minnesota 🙏🙏

@tundrablue05 2 года назад

The amount of knowledge and expertise that is shared is awesome! Thank you!

@gabrielalbores846 Год назад

I live in Phoenix and go to the worm farm regularly. It’s great there and full transparency. They have great compost and other products .

@federicomachon8841 Год назад

Best farm I ever seen Congratulations Sir

@brianseeney1364 Год назад

How do you separate the larvae from the compost when you're ready to harvest them?

@restfulplace3273 4 месяца назад

Grow inside container with lid. PVC tubes for them to crawl into when they seek fresh air. Tube exit drops into bucket

@ogadlogadl490 Год назад

Hopefully one day this is the norm in every neighborhood. I wish and pray for it!

@jamesthomas7928 Год назад

A lot of good free information - thanks for the upload

@pteechka1 Год назад

Love the process of ground heat.

@tracybowling1156 2 года назад

This gentleman is well spoken and has a great business going. You can tell that he has thought about what he is doing AND he is doing it very well! I have really enjoyed this episode. It's also my 1st episode on this ch. ☺️ I'm so interested in knowing if fish like Black Fly larvae?

@visaljohn313 9 месяцев назад

Yes..I follow a YT channel where that person gives live larvae produced from his kitchen waste to his fishes and they absolutely love them. Fishes also grow super quick due to the high protein content in the larvae.

@iainmackenzieUK 2 года назад

Looking forward to starting my own family of black flies - seriously. Thanks for the inspiration.

@fritzwilhelm8258 Год назад

With all due respect to this guy and all their hard work: black soldier fly stuff begins at 1:34

@SciStuff 2 года назад

Good info man. I grew up in AZ, from the deserts to the mountains. Getting and conserving water was always #1 when it comes to growing plants/food. Well, I moved to MN a couple years back and fighting for water is no longer the issue. I now find myself in a place where I can implement things like BSF (cause I can now have chickens) to build a "desert rat's" garden. Thank you for the info. Subscribed…

@s9josh778 Год назад

That greenhouse heating system needs it's own video, that is super cool.

@mhcbon4606 2 года назад

this farm looks awesome, as a human, he is an inspiring one.

@hewasdeadwhenigotthere46 Год назад

Thoroughly impressed

@mollytheda9273 2 года назад

Great video. Pragmatic, knowledgeable guy.

@larryace4683 3 месяца назад

"Straight Outta Compost" I love that! ❤❤❤❤❤

@joepeeer4830 2 года назад

@mihaiciornei5648 Год назад

I was thinking, we end up doing what nature has been doing for millions of years. Which is very good, we will perfect this. Great VIDEO!!!!

@wpierce34004ever 2 года назад

I just want one of those t-shirts he's wearing at 3:30

@billg4630 2 года назад

I really loved this guys honest straight forward video

@crunchworks22 2 года назад

This has been SOOOOOOO INTERSTING!!!! 8:40 when he details the bio/business model.

@duniatani007 2 года назад

useful video, this BSF farm is huge, in my country BSF larvae are called "magot", very useful as fish and chicken feed. thank you for the video. Greetings from Indonesia sir. Love you all

@TheFabFarmer Год назад

Thank you for sharing! My husband and I have been scheming up and idea of how to supplement our meat birds on black soldier fly larvae.

@milagrosripski7679 Год назад

This is a great video. I do have two questions if someone could answer. 1- If the larvae eat restaurant food that most likely has some sort of chemical and the chicks eat that, then are they not producing eggs or meat with chemicals that in turn we will be eating??? 2- Can you provide more info on what exactly you feed your chickens? I do believe at some point there will not be enough feed produced to feed poultry.

@floridacoder Год назад

What is the benefit of BSF vs azola/duckweed which has similar protein levels, when duckweed requires a fraction of the inputs to produce? Plus many people would pay you to remove the duckweed from their ponds. This question is in the context of feeding chickens and other livestock.

@peterv3216 2 года назад

Such an amazing content! Thanks Jesse!

@Drikkerbadevand 2 года назад

can you do this small scale, say, using the garbage of just a single household? Would the amount of larvae adjust to the amount of food you give them? What about colder climates during the winter? Will the flies all die out in subzero temperatures (kept in a greenhouse perhaps) so you have to buy a new batch of larvae every season, or will they just shoot back in the summer when the climate is warmer?

@zmblion 2 года назад

What a really cool guy and place he is building to bad I live in missouri

@thehuntfortruth Год назад

This was so cool and answered so many questions I had! Thanks for this!

@hhunstad2011 2 года назад

Incredibly smart set up!!!

@xiahmia15 2 года назад

That was insanely entertaining and utterly fascinating. How inspiring!!

@ryanpenrod1859 2 года назад

Feeding every employee a salad every day is where this guy achieves true chad boss status. Have you ever heard of a boss doing anything like this for their employees?

@MrPicklesAndTea 2 года назад

A local hvac business owner has an all-expenses-paid annual cruise for all his employees. To be fair though, HVAC is back-breaking work, and bad business years it doesn't happen, but it's a small enough company that his half dozen or so employees understand.

@sarahgardner7671 2 года назад

Yes I have. It's common or was common in food service for the business to provide a meal per day.

@koltoncrane3099 2 года назад

He mentions how its more expensive at first to put in the solar panels and the heated greenhouse rather than using gas or something to heat the greenhouse. It'd be nice to see links or data about how long it takes the solar panel to pay itself off. Or how long does the solar panel have to work to offset the pollution that was released in china when it was created. See a lot of people don't take into account the massive amount of carbon emitted just to create and ship the solar panels. I had a neighbor that runs a major salt mine and they went to solar panels, but he said it was only cause the government paid a good chunk of it. And then i think it was in georgia or florida the news has been showing people paying huge amounts for solar panels while only eliminating like half or something of their energy bill when they were promised solar panels would eliminate 100% of their energy bills.

@covid-19ispsychologicalwar10 2 года назад

I buy solar panels that have been decommissioned from large utility solar fields. They’re usually 7 years old, still put out 100% capacity and cost about 30% of brand new. The way I look at it, they offset their production costs in those first 7 years. I have approximately 27kw in solar panels so I can have full power and fully charge my battery banks on cloudy/rainy/snowy days. During the summer my solar system can/will produce 35kwh or more depending on what I’m running during the day.

@ColRubyDimplesManacha 2 года назад

@@covid-19ispsychologicalwar10 Thanks for that info! How could I go about finding some of those, utility companies or is there an online marketplace, auctions?

@meoff7602 2 года назад

@@markclemmens2862 You have an figure on that? It's calculable and if true would be one of the most powerful anti solar panel proof out there. Basically they could say the actual amount of power to take create and ship a panel to a house and compare it to other traditional power producing methods. Hard to do on your own. Easy to do if say your a huge corporation looking to keep oil in demand. The only problem is.... Traditional power production has all of the same problems you just mentioned. Even nuclear, you have mine and cut the materials needed to build the power plant. Need to repair said nuclear power plant. Need to ship uranium rods around. Need heavy tracking on said uranium rods. Need to store the rods after use for a thousand years+. That means every rod we use adds to the cost of storage. How long before long-term storage of spent uranium rods out ways the amount of power it's producing? The bottom line, every method of power production has a cost. How do you want pay?

@daciogutierrez4132 2 года назад

@@markclemmens2862 Most lifecycle analyses asses that Green House Gas emissions are minimal " Total life cycle GHG emissions from solar PV systems are similar to other renewables and nuclear energy, and much lower than coal." ( from the The National Renewable Energy Laboratory )

@Mr2perc 2 года назад

14:38 : Everybody liked that

@wybuchowyukomendant Месяц назад

LOL, "straight outa compost" tshirt really got me

@huynguyen-qv4jo Год назад

I love this guy!!! He is awesome!!! He motivates me to do what he is doing!!!

@permadynamicsnewzealand2698 2 года назад

Would the larvae have omega 3 even when fed omega 6 feedstock?

@Thee-_-Outlier 2 года назад

Bruh, I'm pretty sure there is no omega 6 feedstock lol. Pretty sure you mean normal feedstock, although you weel see some omega 3 feedstock probably because there is some research that chickens when fed high omega 3 diets, such as a high ratio of flax seeds, the eggs have more omega 3. I'm not sure if this is true in dairy or with the meat of the animal though. And to clarify I don't think there is omega 6 feedstock because idk why anyone would prefer 6 over 3. 6 is already everywhere there is no need to engineer it into farm product

@mrMacGoover 2 года назад

This guy is America's answer to chemical fertilizer shortages in the U.S.

@swen6797 2 года назад

Regenerative no-till ag already got that covered, although hes doing lots of it. Could even be done in phoenix. Browns Ranch, Bismarck ND. Grow soil.

@PeterSedesse 2 года назад

Wish he would have shown the breeding shack a little. Curious how difficult it is to get conditions to where they will breed

@highclimber25 Год назад

you are a great teacher thank you for sharing this interview

@gabrielarruda1997 2 года назад

This guy really know his numbers.

@cowboy2180 Год назад

That was excellent information, thanks for sharing

@emiliogalu Год назад

Amazing. Thank you for sharing

@josephfreddy6653 Год назад

Fabulous Work,,, Great Findings and information****

@franzwaltenspuhl8892 2 года назад

Just received a sample of “boogie black” from Boogie Brew when I purchased a filter. I’m looking forward to using it next time I start seeds.

@turnipsucks6416 2 года назад

Didn't expect all the exceptional shared information. Thank you.

@ca1492bob 2 года назад

Dude did you just eat those snap peas with those dirty hands? LOL! True gardening !

@barbarapearson1653 Год назад

Since this insect is more tropical is there a danger to the bug becoming invasive?

@TheAquaman1979 2 года назад

Excellent content and really appreciate the transparency. Truth these days can be so hard to find.

@rico99586 Год назад

How about in the winter, as for the thermal heating? Can it be used somehow or do you just shut down? Thanks VERY much for this video, I learned a lot today. I raise worms here in Florida, and do it all outside. We do get some pretty cool spells and an occasional cold snap for a couple hours, but in ten years, no losses. All worms in totes or bins. Since it's outside, if I don't cover veggie foods etc, I get BSF, but they mature and leave, however we have a HUGE abundance of geckos, all look like the Geico gecko, and they eat all I toss to them, but sometimes, they will take a bite, and not finish it. Maybe the taste isn't to their liking, but most eat all i throw.. I see now I could have a second product from the same bins and feed. Thanks again.

@drewmow 2 года назад

GHAT system was amazing!!! Loved this video

@lilolmecj 2 года назад

This was an extremely interesting video. I love the interplay of all the working parts! I am so excited. New sub.

@mooctopia123 2 года назад

amazing set up you have there, I realize the food waste may stink in there, but does the larva and their excrement stink? Would they eat plant matter such as that of your yard or garden trimming?