Kulisha: Food Waste into Fish Feed via Insects
Kulisha uses farmers' food waste as an input to grow insects that are then processed into a feed to support fish farmers.
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Kulisha uses farmers' food waste as an input to grow insects that are then processed into a feed to support fish farmers.
Kulisha uses farmers' food waste as an input to grow insects that are then processed and made into a feed to support fish farmers.
Hey Nicholas!
Thanks so much for your comments and suggestions! Black soldier fly larvae eat a wide variety of organic wastes, from all sorts of food production byproducts (including meat and grease - but not bones), to animal waste like chicken manure. We certainly are looking into post-consumer waste but have had issues with sorting and homogeneity/consistency. In the long run, however, it does seem like that will be imperative.
Great suggestion about dehydration - our main concern would be that it is too energy-intensive to then have to rehydrate before feeding it to the insects (they require some baseline moisture content in order to digest the feedstock.) Do you know much about dehydration techniques, maybe using passive solar to cut down energy costs?
Viraj
Hi Tiffany! Great question—something we're definitely thinking a lot about. At the moment, we're going to the farms themselves and collecting waste, but we realize we'll have to put in place a more established system in order to scale.
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