Can Silicon Valley entrepreneurs make crickets the next chicken?

To feed the world, they'll need to scale up insect farming to make it efficient and sustainable

Chiasson, Ricci and Snorkel

DOWN ON THE (CRICKET) FARM  Making edible insects a consequential part of Western agriculture inspired the tech start-up Ovipost. CEO Trina Chiasson is flanked by chief science officer James Ricci and chief technical officer Tequila Ray Snorkel.

 

Brian Tietz

Trina Chiasson was raised in a log cabin, learned to spin plates in Chicago’s circus arts community, dreamed up a software company and three years later sold it to a bigger company.