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THE WORLD`S FIRST DEKTOP HIVE FOR EDIBLE INSECTS: empowering you to grow a food revolution straight out of your kitchen! GROW HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD IN THE FORM OF INSECTS IN YOUR HOME Insects are a superfood, they are highly nutritious, healthy and sustainable. And on top of that, they are delicious! We have worked over 2 years to bring a beautiful home insect farm to you that let´s you grow a food revolution, from a small space inside your home. You love our project but not quite ready to start growing? You also can order a sample pack of delicious mealworms to prepare your taste buds for the future! To find out more visit our homepage: www.livinfarms.com
See more detailed description with images here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468268424/l-i-v-i-n-hive/description
or also visit our homepage: www.livinfarms.com
With our beautiful and functional desktop hive for edible insects you can grow 200-500 g of protein-rich super food mealworms!
This replaces about the same amount of protein that you would otherwise consume in 500g of meat, animal products or other protein foods. Feed your mealworms sustainably on vegetable scraps from your kitchen and always know 100% what you eat.
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BUT WHY INSECTS?
WELL, FIRST OF ALL: THEY TASTE GREAT! But there is more to it:
Growing sustainable food is one of the greatest challenges of our century. We need new methods and technologies to feed the world!
1/3 of valuable fertile croplands are currently used only to feed the grains harvested to animals, 80% of antibiotics worldwide flow into livestock production. While seeking alternatives to industrially produced foods, many of us would prefer to avoid GMOs or pumping animals full of hormones.
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MEALWORMS - A COMBINATION OF THE BEST!
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Mealworms are healthy and good for the planet! They combine the best of meat and plant-based proteins: with a similar protein content to red meats like beef and the beneficial amino-acid profile of tofu. They are also packed with vitamins and enzymes to keep you healthy. Our design-driven approach and innovative technology empowers you to produce your own food with an efficient, pleasant and clean process.
Our passion is to empower you to be independent, grow your own healthy food and always know exactly what you eat!
In the separation cylinder all the dirt will be filtered out and can be used as fertilizer!
HOW DO THEY TASTE?
We have done lots of taste and cooking experiments. Their taste is quite neutral with a bit of a nutty flavor. This allows to mix them into all sorts of recipes. Make them crispy as a snack, sweet or savory as an insect meat patty for your burger. We will build a community platform and blog to help you start this food revolution!
THE LIFECYCLE
The mealworm is the larval stage of the meal beetle (Tenebrio molitor). The adult beetles mate and lay eggs of which little mealworm babies hatch. These grow into a mealworm of the size you like to eat (ca. 3cm long). Some of them will transform into pupae and be separated once you activate the harvest process. The pupae will become beetles again. That´s why you put them into the pupation chamber again to restart your lifecycle.
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*** You also can order a food sample or our book with recipies! ***
& as this is going to be a Advent Calender:
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designed by Katharina Unger & Julia Kaisinger
Comments
WOW – this is a game changer for sustainable food. BTW – Crowdfunding has started on this platform. It would be great, if you consider innonatives crowdfunding for your next products.
I like this idea very much. It just makes so much sense form economic, ecological and moral perspective. However, people are used to eat cows and they hypocritically hide their suffering into industrialized slaughterhouses, that resemble slaughterhouses built for humans during WW2. They find swarming worms disgusting, but it is humans who acts in a disgusting way. How to change this? I must admit, that the worms seem a bit disgusting also to me, but fried worms could be good if they stop swarming on my plate. I tend to eat vegetarian, but worm do not have a fully developed neural network so their suffering can not be compared to suffering of mammals, so I would like to eat them to get some proteins easily. So I would definitely like to buy one of these :) Also if you made degustation happenings with worm kitchen, it could break the prejudice, that people could have.
Hello Jan Stehlik, Thank you very much for your comment! Of course they do not swarm on your plate - we freeze them after harvesting and then usually after washing cook or roast them. I love the plain roasted ones, for people with more hesitations we grind them up into powder and make all kinds of dishes. End of this year we will release a book with our background story and several recipes. (already available for pre-order.) If you want to have a Hive - you can preorder it on livinfarms.com! We did several tasting events all over the world last year, with great feedback and a lot of new fans - this year it will be a bit less, as we have to focus on manufacturing the product. If you want to know about future events and what is going on - follow us on www.facebook.com/livindesignstudio/ or twitter.com/lstudiobird or register for our newsletter - http://www.livinfarms.com/newsletter Best Julia
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