Through knowledge sharing and collaboration, the goal is to help novice and more experienced insect farming enthusiasts with commercial black soldier fly farming work together toward circular food production.
Insect School has already opened its physical location in the Netherlands, where testing facilities are available for every step of the black soldier fly breeding process. This begins with the laying of eggs by the adult flies through to the processing of the larvae into protein for animal feed. In several air-conditioned rooms equipped with high-tech systems, customers and partners of the Insect School can gain hands-on experience with the industrial process of commercial breeding of black soldier fly larvae. In this way, Insect School helps industry start-ups to make the move to an industrial-scale commercial black soldier fly farm. Through different types of pilot projects, Insect School helps entrepreneurs to analyze the technological feasibility of their plans.
Meanwhile, www.insectschool.com aims to be the premier online news resource and knowledge base for anyone interested in the black soldier fly industry. Insect School was founded to show the world what black soldier fly farming has to offer and how it will revolutionize the world of animal nutrition towards global circular food production.
The site will deliver news, analysis, online and face-to-face events, and interactive content on the issues and stories affecting decision-makers in the industry.
“We believe that if you are serious about changing the world, you cannot do it alone. We believe in the value of shared intelligence for both customers and brands, driving business growth through collaboration and innovation,” said Bob Holtermans, CEO and founder of Insect Engineers, in a press release. “By sharing knowledge and working together, rather than keeping it all to ourselves, we can expand our knowledge and really thrive as an industry.”
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In this way, the Insect School aims to grow the community and act as an online meeting place and platform for companies in the sector to share knowledge and start commercial breeding of the black soldier fly. As the industry is often very closed, Insect School believes a change is needed towards working together to make a difference. This is the only way to make big leaps towards circular food production in order to enable the next generations to have a sustainable future.
