Biomi-Farming

Description

Biomi-Farming stands for Biological Micro Farming. The aim of Biomi-Farming was initially to grow mealworms organically. These mealworms are then grown sustainably based on bioconversion of residual flows, creating a circular economy.
Biomi-Farming has collaborated with GroenCollect to process the residual flows of entrepreneurs based in the Randstad.

By growing them ourselves, experimenting since 2017, attending knowledge sessions of Inagro, Wadudu, NGN (New Generation Nutrition), Wageningen University and HAS (Higher Agricultural School) and Mijten Diervoeders, we have gained a great deal of knowledge about breeding insects.

Where conventional livestock farmers need large spaces for their livestock, mealworm farms do not. The space is used as much as possible because the breeding trays are stackable, and in this way more than 120 kilos of mealworms can be grown per m2 in a period/cycle of 11 weeks. This makes mealworm farming extremely suitable for an urban environment.

The Randstad also offers many opportunities in terms of a location for this sector. Where conventional livestock farmers need many hectares of land to carry out their activities, a mealworm farm does not have that, and can even be perfectly suitable for breeding mealworms in a building with several or even many floors, which in turn offers the urban environment of the Randstad the opportunity to produce local food.

The Biomi-Farming initiative was terminated after the test phase.