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DIY Summer Salad with Waxworms and Cricket Dressing

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You too can cook with cricket flour and wax worms

I don’t know about you, but when I look out my window, summer seems like a faraway dream.

For goodness sake, over here in Toronto, Ontario, it hasn’t stopped snowing since early Saturday morning! Brrr!

I thought to myself, what better way to bring the summer to us than by making a sunny summer salad. Of course the recipe that I’m giving you is full of protein, calcium, iron, and the essential amino acids due to the cricket flour infused in the dressing, and the crunchy wax worms that are added as a topping.

I have posted this recipe before, but what makes this post unique, is that by clicking on the image above, you will be taken to a video showing you exactly how to make the dressing and the salad, step-by-step, by our own awesome Ento-Chef (A.K.A. Bug Chef) Caryn!

For those of you who have taken the plunge and bought cricket flour and are wondering how to use it in your day-to-day cooking, then look no further. Caryn shows you how to easily blend your cricket flour into your salad dressing to pack some protein and other goodies into your salads. For those of you who haven’t tried the flour, but are interested, this is your chance!

The crunchy, crispy wax worms serve as an awesome topping, especially if you are trying to stay away from stuff like croutons. The wax worms add an amazing crunch and light nutty flavor to the salad. If you’re looking to try some of the wax worms, you can get them through special order at Next Millennium Farms, just send your request to [email protected]

 

 

 

Congratulations to the “Hoppy” Winner!

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Organic Cricket Flour

Next Millennium Farms is happy to announce that Julene Sinclair of California is the winner of a one-pound bag of organic cricket flour! Way to go, Julene!

She was lucky enough to win the prize through The Paleo Mom’s giveaway. This is the second time that Next Millennium Farms has provided prizing for The Paleo Mom.

The winner is new to using cricket flour in her cooking and baking, so she was provided with a link to some delicious recipes that incorporate the flour.

Are you starting to get curious about cooking and baking with cricket flour, or snacking on some whole roasted crickets or mealworms?

Well, we’re making it easy for you!

Go to our store, and when you check out your order, you’ll receive 20% off your order, just by entering promo code NMF2015 by Sunday January 11th, 2015.

Now that’s something to chirp about!

Halloween Party Treats: Serve Insects! BOO!

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Halloween Bug Treats

Eat Insects for Halloween

BOO!

Are you having a Halloween party?

Do you want to be the best house on the block, with the scariest, and most amazing handouts for the trick-or-treaters?

This year blow them all away with packets of edible insects.

Right now, at Next Millennium Farms, we’re offering 10% off any order with Promo Code: Halloween so that you can have

the best Halloween party EVER, and so that you can be the house that everyone in the neighborhood is talking about!

Visit or store and order before October 31st, and you’ll get 10% off your order!

 

Eat Insects at the Norwood Fall Fair

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Eat Insects at the Norwood Fall Fair

When I say the words, “Fall Fair”, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?

Delicious homemade food? Beautiful handmade crafts? Rides? Livestock shows?

How about, “Edible Insects”?

Ok, well maybe that’s not typical fare for a fair, but in a few short weeks at the Norwood Fall Fair, on October 11th and 12th, that will be exactly what you can find amidst the cows, goats, horses, hand-cut french fries, and handmade doilies.

If you’re looking for something amazing and fun to do with the family on the Thanksgiving weekend, come on out to the Norwood Fall Fair, and be sure to stop by and say hello to Derek Sedgwick of Next Millennium Farms. I’m sure he’ll be more than happy to discuss the amazing benefits of #entomophagy (eating insects), and will give you a sample of our @Protein2050 #EdibleInsects and will talk to you about our #CricketFlour that adds a delicious nutty flavour to your shakes, pies, cookies and sauces, as well as a protein punch!

Derek was just out at the Purple Onion Festival in Peterborough last week, and was asked to do an interview with Cogeco and for Trent University regarding Next Millennium Farms and on the benefits of #EatingInsects not only relating to personal health, but for the globe as well. Derek spoke with many festival goers, and was pleased to see that many were interested and keen to try the samples in the Next Millennium Farms’ booth. Tons of excited and happy customers walked away with their bags of cricket flour to add to their cooking and baked goods.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

 

 

 

 

Crickets Make Your Trail Mix a Hopping Experience

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Pack some protein in your trail mix by adding in some insects

What do you put in your trail mix? Nuts? Dried Fruit? Crickets?

Yup. That’s right, I said ‘crickets’.

Nick Hiebert, Founder of Ecotone Foods out of Manitoba, has created a delicious twist on an old trail tradition. He has popped roasted crickets, mealworms and super worms into a trailmix along with dried fruit like cranberries and blueberries, and an assortment of nuts and seeds.

Those who are curious and adventurous tasted the crunchy mix and quickly discovered that the bug laden power food is as delicious as it is nutritious. Cheryl Holmes, the reporter for CTV News in Winnipeg, happily crunched a big spoonful of the super snack.

So, what does Ecotone Foods have to do with Next Millennium Farms? Good question.

Next Millennium Farms supplies Ecotone Foods with their scrumptious insects for their trail mix. Click on the video in the article and check out 1:26-1:50 to hear Ryan Goldin, co-founder of Next Millennium Farms, talk about part of the process that is used to provide us with our crunchy critters.

I love trail mix. It is actually one of my daily standards, especially now that I’m making a concerted effort to eliminate unhealthy snacks from my diet (those that are the culprits know who they are!).

I blend in some raw sliced almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, unsweetened coconut, and cranberries. So, after this article came out, I asked some other Next Millennium Farms team members how long they think it will be until food made with insects is the norm- not ‘specialty’ or ‘niche’ or ‘novelty’.

I say 1-2 years.

Hopeful? Maybe… Anyone care to make a wager?

#InsectProtein #CricketFlour #Entomophagy

BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ Talks About Eating Crickets and Next Millennium Farms

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Next Millennium Farms on BBC

Sian Griffiths, reporter for BBC’s “From Our Own Correspondent”, talks candidly about eating crickets, her visit to the cricket farm and worm farm of Next Millennium Farms in rural Ontario, and meeting the Goldin Brothers, Jarrod, Darren and Ryan, the co-founders of the company.

Click to listen to the podcast, and scrub to 4:45, to hear Griffiths talk about the impact that eating insects can have on global food security as well as the nutritional and environmental benefits of eating insects.

Griffiths points out that 2 billion people on this planet already consume insects as their main source of protein; from Asia to Africa, to South America. She bravely tries the ginger cookies made with cricket flour, and the brownies made with cricket flour, (and states how delicious they are!) but passes on the chocolate covered mealworms.

Maybe next time, Sian!

#InsectProtein #CricketFlour #Entomophagy

 

 

 

 

 

Eating Insects and Cricket Flour Make the News in the United Kingdom

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The Daily Mail had a huge spread in their online and print paper today about Next Millennium Farms and the reality of insect protein becoming the new viable source of protein for humans as we skyrocket towards a global population of over 9 billion people.

Next Millennium Farms is the first farm of its kind in North America that raises crickets for human consumption.

The article in the Daily Mail clearly outlines the health benefits of humans consuming insect protein, as well as the environmental aspects of raising insects for protein consumption versus other more readily accepted (in North America) forms of protein that put a drastic strain on the Earth and its resources, such as fresh water and land.

Read the article and share with your friends and family! Change is a-coming!

#CricketFlour #InsectProtein #Entomophagy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat Insects at the Incredible Edible Festival

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Eating insects at the Incredible Edibles Festival

Do you live in Ontario, and are looking for something fun to do tomorrow? Maybe you want to take a little drive, eat some great food, listen to amazing music, and listen to some fantastic speakers?

Check out Campbellford, on Saskatoon Avenue, there will be a large food festival, called the Incredible Edibles Festival. Derek Sedgwick of Next Millennium Farms will be there with great tasting crickets, mealworms and cricket flour for sampling and purchasing, and at 1:30 pm, he will be speaking about how eating insects is a great way to get protein, iron, essential amino acids and calcium into your diet in a delicious and easy way.

Hope to see you out there!

Eating Insects with ASAP Science

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Eating Insects from Bug Bistro

Last week I was taking a little break at work, chatting to one of my friends at her desk, when suddenly, another one of my friends came running out of his cubicle when he heard my voice, phone in hand, saying something like, “They’re eating crickets, they’re eating crickets!” (My co-workers at my 9-5 job are all VERY intrigued by my new-found interest in eating insects) I looked at him and asked, “Who’s eating crickets?” He responded with, “The ASAP Science guys! They’re eating crickets, and posted a pic on Instagram!”

We had just heard of ASAP Science through one of our instructors during a course we were all taking together at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design), and many of us started following them through different social media channels.

So, of course I take the phone from his outstretched hand and look at the picture, and sure enough, not only are they eating insects, they are eating insects from THE BUG BISTRO! I totally freaked out, shrieked, and said, “OH MY GOD, they’re eating our bugs! They’re eating crickets from Next Millennium Farms!”

Well, that was just the beginning.

A few days later, there were two videos posted by ASAP Science, AKA Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown.

There are two videos: “Should We All Be Eating Insects” discusses the nutritious value and environmental component related to eating insects, and “How to Eat Bugs” offers the new insect eater some great ideas for including insects in their daily diet.

ASAP Science cred Youtube

 

ASAP Science cred to Youtube showing you how to eat insects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All A-Buzz at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

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Eating Insects at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

Who are those handsome young men sporting the Next Millennium Farms shirts #Entomophagy? Why, they’re the Dereks of course! Derek Sedgwick and Derek Delahaye, members of the Next Millennium Farms family, represent at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market.

They made their debut last weekend, and were over-whelmed by the wonderful response from the many people who came by the Next Millennium Farms booth at the market.

Next Millennium Farms Booth at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market

Every Saturday, from 7am to 1pm, hundreds of people browse through the stands of the Farmers’ Market at the Memorial Centre parking lot at Lansdowne and George street.

According to Derek S. (shown on the left), there were many passersby who were curious, and who started talking to the ‘Dereks’ and asking them questions about the products, eating insects, and other pressing questions, such as- ‘Ya, but how do they taste?’

Many people were really open to the concept and trying the product. Mothers, without any hesitation, were allowing their very curious children to sample a seasoned cricket or a mealworm from the newly launched Bug Bistro line of edible seasoned insects.

Lots of insect sampling!

Everyone who tasted a cricket or mealworm was pleasantly surprised to find that they are really quite delicious! By the end of the first day, it was clear that the most popular insects to crunch on were the crickets, and the best seller of the day was the 113 gram bag of cricket flour.

If you live in the Peterborough area, or love spending your summer in Ontario trawling from one farmers’ market to another, stop by the Next Millennium Farms booth for a sample of bugs bursting with flavour!