Kevin Bachhuber
- Jul 4, 2014
- 1 min read

Urban Farmer Sets His Sights on a New Venture: Crickets

PUBLISHEDJuly 4, 2014

(Sounds of crickets in the “breeders tent”)

I’m not in a forest. I’m not in a park. I’m not even outside. I’m here in an old rundown warehouse in Youngstown Ohio—the perfect place, says Kevin Bachhuber, to grow crickets. "So these are our babies. They’re actually hardening up right now," said Bachhuber.

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