You can buy our products in retail outlets across the UK. If you can’t spot them in your local foodie shop, café or visitor attraction, please ask for them, as this helps to show there is interest for insect-based food products and we would be thrilled to supply them. If you want to buy them online, our main stockist is The Bug Farm.

Yes! Have a look at our wholesale page and get in touch to request our most recent product directory and wholesale price list.

Without wanting to sound morose, we simply cannot continue to eat the way that we do today. In 2013, a report was published by the UN FAO urging us in the West to adopt the practice of eating insects as a sustainable food source.

By 2050 there will be almost 10 billion people on Earth and, to feed them all, we will require 70% more food, 120% more water and 42% more crop land. By 2050 meat production is predicted to double and, to meet current environmental targets, impacts of livestock on the environment will need to halve compared to what they are today.

There is a global need for alternative protein sources, and insects are packed full of the stuff! In addition, insects may contain function oils, such as omega-3 fatty acids including linoleic acid (LA), alpha-linoleic acid (ALA) and lauric acid, which could reduce our reliance on often unsustainable fish oils.

Insects are significantly more sustainable to farm than other livestock (see above). As well as entomophagy being good for the environment, the nutritional and health benefits are numerous (see above). And, above all, edible insects can taste delicious!

The sustainability of our ingredient sourcing is extremely important to us. All our insects are farmed in the UK. The insects are farmed without synthetic chemicals or antibiotics. Our chocolate is Rainforest Alliance certified and fairtrade, we use organic cacao and all our products are plant-based with the addition of insects.

Even if you don’t think that you want to veer into the world of entomophagy, we’ve got news for you: you already have! On average, you eat 250-500g of insects each year in products such as pasta, cakes and bread. It is just not worth the energy to remove every fragment of insect when harvesting crops. Like chocolate? Well, you may be eating up to 60 fragments of insects in every 100g of chocolate and, whenever you eat a fig, you are eating remnants of the fig wasp that pollinated it.

But, casual entomophagy aside, over 2 billion people around the world eat insects regularly (and on purpose) – those who don’t are the odd ones out! Edible insects are a staple part of the diet in 80% of the worlds countries. Deep fried locusts are an everyday delicacy in countries such as Thailand, while chapulines (Mexican red grasshoppers) are a favourite snack in South America. The West is slowly waking up to insects as a sustainable food source with entomophagy becoming a hot topic in popular culture. Countries such the Netherlands and America are currently at the forefront of the modern entomophagy revolution, but we want Wales to become the new home of edible insects!

There are more than 2,000 known species of edible insect, offering an Aladdin’s Cave of flavours and textures, especially when they are combined with other ingredients. Most insects taste neither sweet nor savoury, so can be used in a variety of dishes. We think that crickets taste subtle, malty and slightly nutty.

Conventional livestock production is land and water thirsty. 30% of the earth’s land mass is taken up by livestock (including grazing land and land used to grow feed crops) and livestock consume 8% of all water usage mediated by humans.

Relying on cheap, intensively farmed meat for protein comes at a drastic cost to our environment in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, chemical usage and water pollution. Livestock farming is responsible for 18% of all GHG emissions and the rising issue of antibiotic (and other chemical) resistance in agriculture is now a global issue as we try to push our livestock to grow more quickly in smaller spaces.

This is why we need additional, alternative protein sources with lower environmental costs. While eating more plant protein is one obvious solution, plants do not contain heme iron (which can be readily absorbed by our bodies) and many plant proteins are low in vital nutrients such as iodine and omega-3 fatty acids (especially alpha-linoleic acid). Bring on the insects!

Many insects breed quickly and require very little space, or water. This makes farming them extremely efficient. For example, it takes about 22,000 litres of water to produce 1kg of intensively-farmed beef whereas it can take just 1-10 litres of water to produce 1kg of edible insect protein…and they release 99% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cattle when doing it! To produce the equivalent amount of protein, some insects can require 12-25 times less feed when compared to cattle and half the feed compared to chickens. They also take up one tenth of the land area compared to cattle when turning that feed into edible protein.

No – please don’t! Insects in the wild may have been exposed to pesticides which you really don’t want to eat! Also, many insect species are pretty tricky to tell apart so you may accidentally collect a rare species and you don’t want cause a local extinction! Also, please don’t eat insects sold in pet shops, as they may contain growth hormones which can be really bad for you.

Not all invertebrates are sustainable to eat. While tarantulas are eaten traditionally in some parts of the world, we wouldn’t advise eating them. Most tarantulas take years to reach sexual maturity and, in the wild, produce few offspring that survive to adulthood. We have a pet tarantula called Rosie and she can live up to 40 years…she grows s…l…o…w…l…y! If you are eating insects because you want to eat more sustainably, stick to farmed species, such as crickets, and choose species that are farmed as close to you as possible.

Our farmed insects are bred in state of the art, high-welfare insect farms in the UK. Conditions are controlled to ensure optimum growth rates and animal welfare.