EP39: Half chicken-feed business, half waste management company - Grubbly Farms

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Fun Facts

With every pound of Grubblies purchased, 10 pounds of food waste has been diverted from landfills, offsetting 7 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Founders

Patrick Pittaluga and Sean Warner

LAUNCHED

July 2015

Flagship Product

Grubblies

HQ

Atlanta, GA

Grubbly Farms on In Good Hands

Background

After reading a clickbait article about how we’ll all be eating insects by 2030, cousins (and college buddies) Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga did the not-so obvious thing: ordered 700 Black Soldier Fly Grubs to raise in their laundry room. As their first generation of grubs wiggled into the world, Grubbly Farms was born.

Solution

“Grubblies” - their flagship product - are a nourishing daily snack (insects!) for backyard chickens. Because they are fed food scraps, each Grub actively diverts waste from landfills, reduces methane gas, creates nutritious fertilizer and becomes protein-rich animal feed as they gobble everything up.

Episode Brief

Patrick Pittaluga, Co-Founder and COO of Grubbly Farms, joins Peter on this week’s episode to discuss:

  • Starting up after reading a clickbait article

  • Getting into the insect-farming business

  • Serving the massive, growing backyard chicken market

  • Closing the “agricultural loop”

  • Insects as a waste management solution

Credits

HOST

Peter Levin

PRODUCTION

Dan Mahoney

MUSIC

Eddie Knuckles

Peter Levin