North Star Crickets

27/04/2021

Fresh pins hatching today
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12/02/2020

Yet another awesome benefits of insects!

FOOD SCIENCE Could crickets offer the next breakthrough in diabetes and hypertension treatments? Story by Emma Ea Ambrose Photography by Tom Campbell February 11, 2020 "When I entered the Purdue food science graduate program four and a half years ago, I never thought I’d b

23/01/2020

*dust dust* mic check. Hello!

Due to personal life changes (living is especially tough work sometimes) the NSC Farm has been on hold for the past year. New year and it’s time to start it back up again!

2020 is looking up. 🦗🎉🦗

24/11/2019

Thanks , well done.

24/11/2019

Congrats James Rolin and Cowboy Cricket Farms for the well deserved recognition

24/11/2019

https://youtu.be/X-E6I6027DY

23/11/2019

Two of my favorite things together, The Brain Scoop and insect cuisine!!

Add some healthy, sustainable CRUNCH to your diet by incorporating more insects into your meals! Many are packed with nutrients, and are already enjoyed by b...

09/10/2019

There is more than one right way to travel to the future of food.

Around the world, two billion people eat insects regularly. In the US and Europe? Not so much. But, some entrepreneurs think it’s time. We take a tour of the...

29/08/2019

Great day of speakers talking about a bunch of ways that innovation in indoor farming is coming to Minnesota and making differences to our local agriculture. Thank you to .river.energy and for hosting and organizing this event.

05/05/2019

Cricket ramp pesto!!
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03/05/2019

Swarm To Table was the best experience I’ve had in a long time. Great events, great people, and a fabulous dinner to finish the whole thing off prepared by chef Joseph Yoon of with the help of a bunch of folks from and . Thanks also to as the brains behind this whole thing, and everyone else involved, including

@ University of Wisconsin-Madison

29/04/2019

Last night we had a fabulous dinner that was the culmination of the three day Swarm To Table event at . So many outstanding people were involved to make it all come together.

@ University of Wisconsin-Madison

29/04/2019

Madison you were wonderful. Had such a great time at with doing Swarm to Table with so many great people.

27/04/2019

Super fun cooking workshop yesterday with chef Joseph Yoon from
@ University of Wisconsin-Madison

27/04/2019

Very excited to be able to provide some Midwest grown crickets for swarm to table! A great collaboration with so many amazing people.

25/01/2019

Some nice growth and density on a couple bins, and happy hungry younger ones in another bin.
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@ Saint Paul, Minnesota

06/01/2019

Happy new year from North Star Crickets! Thanks to everyone who has gotten us to 400 followers on IG! We’ve got a full house at the...cricket cavern, ranch room, little livestock lair, bug bungalow. Any other ideas for nicknames?
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01/01/2019

2018, what an awesome year. Lots of new things to be happy about. I Can’t wait to see what 2019 has in store for us! ⬆️ ⭐️ 🦗

27/12/2018

Bugs will be big in 2019! Happy new year everyone!!

Cricket powder is making edible insects a food trend in 2019, following years of hype over whether insects can be a sustainable meat substitute.

26/12/2018

Female doing her final molt to become a mature adult, about 5 weeks since she hatched from an egg. Each size between molts is called an instar. This species, Gryllodes sigillatus, has about 7 or 8 instars before they are mature adults. The only real difference between their nymph instars and the adult is that the males get wings in their final instar and females develop their ovipositor, which is what they deposit their eggs into the ground with. Females have a couple instars before they are mature where the ovipositor begins to develop, it’s far too long to fully form in one instar, it wouldn’t fit inside their previous exoskeleton.

11/12/2018

Embrace the future and be a trendsetter with an open mind for the future, not a disgusted consumer stuck in the unsustainable past.

“It’s not that they’re dirty and disgusting so we don’t eat them; it’s that we don’t eat them, so we think of them as dirty and disgusting.”

06/12/2018

Would you look at that, we made it to 100 likes on Facebook! Sounds like cause to celebrate, with some crickets for the holidays.
https://www.northstarcrickets.com/shop

Minnesota urban edible cricket farm

28/11/2018

26/11/2018

Website is up! It's a work in progress and will continue to be updated and improved. Positive constructive feedback is welcome.

Minnesota urban edible cricket farm

20/11/2018

Thanks to Atlas Obscura for this wonderful piece on , hosted by The Bug Chef and Joseph Yoon. Read on to see what they thought about all the ento-cuisine we used to replace the traditional, colonial theme of Thanksgiving.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bug-banquet-eating-insects

20/11/2018

Nice piece by Jeva Lange for THE WEEK on the Brooklyn Bugs Bugsgiving event last week. Showing us that eating insects can be tasty, exciting, sustainable, and yes scary too.

Oh, and did I mention I'm a vegetarian?

06/11/2018

Always fun to talk to people about crickets, and definitely appreciate the awareness that each new conversation brings. Thanks James J. Hill Center for hosting 1 Million Cups St. Paul and taking interest in the livestock of the future.
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There is no handbook for cricket farming, But when you have founded Minnesota’s first edible insect farm you have to do things the old fashioned way—you have to figure it out yourself.

01/11/2018

The great Julie Lesnik talks about the history of eating insects, and why we should bring it back in the western diet

23/10/2018

I had a fun conversation with for her podcast about raising and eating crickets. Give it a listen and tell all your friends!
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22/10/2018

Had a great conversation with StephaniesDish on the Makersofmn podcast about raising and eating crickets, and their place in the future of agriculture and food.

Eric P***n has a cricket ranch in his basement as he harvests live crickets to make cricket protein for Northstar… [ + ]