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!
@@TigeyKat 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?
@@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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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 🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 👌
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.
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.
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.
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.
😀🌱🐢 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.
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.
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.
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?
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 🙏🙏
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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. 🤷♀
@@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
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…
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.
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!
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?
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.
Min 5:30 2 10x10 enclosures ---> 500 lbs of larvae ("protein"?) per week. The biggest labor piece must be getting 700-1000 lbs of edibles into the trays per week. Any thoughts?
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.
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.
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
I just found these in my compost today and now it's raining and they are all escaping! I wanted to see if there was any use for them. Wish I knew someone with chickens.
Way cool stuff. I'm glad we have a producer in AZ. I need to get eggs to put in the compost. What the larva leave behind is the perfect feed for redworms.
Love the shirt! Have you ever considered PCMs to stabilize your greenhouse temps? Your GGH setup is wonderful, however PCMs can do pretty much the same thing with ZERO moving parts and ZERO electricity.
I remember watching a doc. about africans harvesting lakeflies. They were in such huge numbers that the people made blocks of flies , dried them in the sun and ate them or fed them to livestock
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.
Y'all are amazing!! Could I ask about how much an industrial microwave like that costs? And also how many lbs of food per week it takes to yield a lb of BSFs?
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?
9:10 What is price/pound of chocolate covered dried fly larvae? How about hot chili mixed into the chocolate? A lemon basil sugar glaze would be nice too.
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.
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
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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!
Will they eat leaves or grass?
@@TheRainHarvester absolutely :) mix them into your pile and they’ll be with you all season!
@@TigeyKat 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?
Thankyou for sharing your experience. I am thinking of starting my own totally off grid homestead and this was so helpful
@@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!
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.
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.
Well. Looks like you just found your sidd hustle. Or it found you
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.
@@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 🤣🤣🤣
@@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.
I started farming these this year. My chickens go nuts for these! Definitely saves on feed costs. It's a win win.
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Many many video on bsf larve
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Do you know how much waste by weight the consume?
nice
@@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
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.
@@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.
agreed
@@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.
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.
@@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
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!!
Eat the bugs! 😉
NOT for human consumption 🤮
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.
Had no intentions of watching the entire video BUT the video was so interesting I did!!! Fantastic job!!! Stay awesome!!
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!
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.
Its so wonderful that there are people like you in the world. Well done. A more humane way to feed chickens.
Humane ? Microwaving live insects ,,, I guess your definition of humane is quite wide
@@tilapiadave3234 hakuna matata friend
Yeah, I wouldn't go with humane. I would go with healthier.
How is any other way any less humane? Chickens will literally eat rats if they can
Learning that soldier fly poop tricking plants into defending themselves alone is worth watching this video
Great
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!
His thought process is the REAL value in this video. What a logical mind 🖤🔥 intelligence is sexy
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!
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.
I couldn't raise them to creepy, I'm not afraid of insects but maggots are efficient creatures but not for me
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. :)
Keep spreading the word! I think Black soldier fly larvae are really one of the next big ideas in gardening!!
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.
Really enjoyed this. Ingenious farming with a very low ecological footprint. He explains it really well.
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!
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.
He's definitely got a point
So you let them in your garden? They don't eat your vegetables?
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@@НемањаРашевић the flies dont have mouths. so no.
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.
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.
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 👌
The insect frass aspect in seed growing mix is very interesting.
I like that dude. I hope more and more people and businesses subscribe to his way of thinking.
Here is the chanal
Many many video on bsf larve
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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.
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.
This is amazing to see. We produce BSF at a large scale here in Uganda. I'm glad this insect biotechnology is spreading globally!
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???
How can one get in touch with you for training
@@factstv953depending on where you live just get a bunch of coffee grounds and you’ll have some, they love laying their eggs in thay
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.
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.
😀🌱🐢
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.
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.
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.
Just visited the worm farm today, love this place and the products they sell.
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?
My chickens, guineas and turkeys LOVE these! But they’re SO expensive!
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 🙏🙏
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.
Update?
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.
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!
The amount of knowledge and expertise that is shared is awesome! Thank you!
From the larvae farming to earth cooling, this guy is successfully implementing so many sustainable cutting edge ideas
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.
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.
We were doing this 15 years ago.
It may have been other flies than black solder fly
@@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. 🤷♀
@@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
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…
Great video. Pragmatic, knowledgeable guy.
Looking forward to starting my own family of black flies - seriously.
Thanks for the inspiration.
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!!!!
I bought your book. love it. watch your videos... love them. thank you
two fans and a thermostat,.. dude you're inspiring me
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.
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!
This is it. I use them under my quail pens. Completely odor free.
Here is the chanal
Many many video on bsf larve
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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?
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.
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 .
This has been SOOOOOOO INTERSTING!!!! 8:40 when he details the bio/business model.
this farm looks awesome, as a human, he is an inspiring one.
With all due respect to this guy and all their hard work: black soldier fly stuff begins at 1:34
A lot of good free information - thanks for the upload
Excellent content and really appreciate the transparency. Truth these days can be so hard to find.
Hopefully one day this is the norm in every neighborhood. I wish and pray for it!
Such an amazing content! Thanks Jesse!
That was insanely entertaining and utterly fascinating. How inspiring!!
Best farm I ever seen
Congratulations Sir
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.
Min 5:30
2 10x10 enclosures ---> 500 lbs of larvae ("protein"?) per week.
The biggest labor piece must be getting 700-1000 lbs of edibles into the trays per week.
Any thoughts?
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.
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.
Really enjoyed the content...Thanks for the enormous amount of knowledge and exciting content...Love from Nepal...
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.
Thanks for the information . ❤️ New subscriber from 🇵🇭 Happy farming .
I studied this, and bred them in large numbers for a few years. I could not get a customer that could make me a living.
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
Didn't expect all the exceptional shared information. Thank you.
I just found these in my compost today and now it's raining and they are all escaping! I wanted to see if there was any use for them. Wish I knew someone with chickens.
This was an extremely interesting video. I love the interplay of all the working parts! I am so excited. New sub.
Way cool stuff. I'm glad we have a producer in AZ. I need to get eggs to put in the compost. What the larva leave behind is the perfect feed for redworms.
"Straight Outta Compost" I love that! ❤❤❤❤❤
I really loved this guys honest straight forward video
Love the process of ground heat.
Fabulous Work,,, Great Findings and information****
Love the shirt! Have you ever considered PCMs to stabilize your greenhouse temps? Your GGH setup is wonderful, however PCMs can do pretty much the same thing with ZERO moving parts and ZERO electricity.
Wish he would have shown the breeding shack a little. Curious how difficult it is to get conditions to where they will breed
LOL, "straight outa compost" tshirt really got me
This was so cool and answered so many questions I had! Thanks for this!
I remember watching a doc. about africans harvesting lakeflies. They were in such huge numbers that the people made blocks of flies , dried them in the sun and ate them or fed them to livestock
That greenhouse heating system needs it's own video, that is super cool.
What a really cool guy and place he is building to bad I live in missouri
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.
Awesome video. Just got chickens and want to make me a mini soldier fly farm for them.
Y'all are amazing!! Could I ask about how much an industrial microwave like that costs? And also how many lbs of food per week it takes to yield a lb of BSFs?
Incredibly smart set up!!!
Do those wooden slits that are rubber banded together have anything else between them that produces a gap?
Thank you for well informing me and if I may say we people, thanks
Great video. Thank you for this valuable information. Cheers
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?
GHAT system was amazing!!! Loved this video
Awesome, great to see a working practical farm instead of just theories.
Thoroughly impressed
Great video Zach - thanks from the UK/France
9:10 What is price/pound of chocolate covered dried fly larvae? How about hot chili mixed into the chocolate? A lemon basil sugar glaze would be nice too.
Ha-ha. I do laugh over people willing to go into friable options for mature larvae
Moringa trees will grow in your region, look into the benefits of feeding your insects, also your chickens
Amazing. Love your videos.
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.
Would the larvae have omega 3 even when fed omega 6 feedstock?
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