Zym - the truth is that I haven't gotten myself to eat one bug - but I eat little meat. Veggies and fruit and seeds do me good and I like eggs and dairy and with fish and suet I'm cheaper to feed than my beagle! My husband needs a great deal more meat than me - so that's why I think
HE should eat bugs. lol. It's all these darn creatures that need so much whole meat animal that are my trouble. If I could feed them all worms then I wouldn't have to hunt down farmers like I am.
I just now made my big container for mealworms which is what I'm going to start with first. I have a small amount and some darkling beetles (what the "worms" turn into) from a pet store - but I'm going to order 5,000 or maybe more on-line - probably tonight. I once raised masses of mealworms but then one night a lizard must have gotten in the house and they all disappeared. That lizard must have EXPLODED. So I just made a container that will allow in lots of air but not lizards and hunter spiders and the like. I bought lots of organic meal for them as their bedding and I'm ready to go.
I used to raise crickets, but that will be later down the road to introduce them again. You have to be ready for crickets.
But this order I will be getting a whole bunch of red wiggler worms. Those I will feed my garbage to. Those are great. I used to compost indoors with them all the time. Their feed is free. Those I will definitely be able to feed the chickens and fish - but probably no one else. Red wigglers and mealworms are both pretty easy to raise. Roaches would also be pretty simple - but I can't get myself to do that.
Superworms and waxworms and silkworms are all do-able too, just not quite as much of a no-brainer as the mealworms and red-wigglers.
I'm also outside making a black soldier fly composter for the self-harvesting maggots. Chickens go nuts for those and that is totally free food.
That's what I'm up to on the bug farm.