Crickets Crawled Into Baby Porridge
I climbed the tree from the top. Told you how crickets grew children, but never how they got into the porridge in the first place. There is something deeply hopeful about a child finishing a bowl of porridge. Not because the bowl is empty. But because somewhere behind that final spoon is a mother wa
The Porridge that grew children
I want to tell you about a study. Not in the way scientists tell you about studies with passive voice and p-values and tables that require a second cup of tea to decode. I want to tell you the way you tell someone about something that quietly changed you. Because this one did. For eight […]
Things that Crunch…
I hope this finds you well, hydrated, and not suspicious of the things that crunch where they shouldn’t. Actually, a little suspicion is healthy. It means you’re still alive. I’m back home for work. (Yes, actual work, not the kind where you sit in cafés and call it “thinking.”) We’re ru
They are already here….
They are here in quieter ways. In the margins of fields, in the cracks of dry earth, in the hum that begins just after sunset. They have always been here, tuning the night to a frequency we pretend not to hear. We gave them a name that sounds like a sound: crickets. And then we […]
Technical Brief: Grasshopper production systems in East Africa
The Ruspolia project, funded by the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR-OUS) has released a technical brief on grasshopper production system. The consumption of the naturally occurring longhorn grasshopper, Ruspolia differens locally known as senene, is an important part of food culture in several
