Usefully understood as industrializing insect agriculture within a regenerative food system, Beta Hatch makes protein for plants and animals in a zero waste system using at the firm's mealworm ranch. In collaboration with the Washington Clean Energy Fund, the circular production system uses waste heat from a neighboring data center to condition the insect grow rooms. Serving farmers, ranchers, and researchers, Beta Hatch Inc. grows insect protein for food, animal feed, and fertilizer application raising insects as high-protein and high-fat feed for poultry and aquaculture while also producing organic fertilizer known as frass (insect manure) for vegetable growers. With the focus on thousands of insect farms helping grow more food around the world, the firm is organized around creating the production technology, the process, and the genetic stock to grow the worlds most efficient insects. Pioneering a patentable process for growing mealworms on an industrial scale to disrupt plant and animal nutrition, the firm has achieved growing 1,200 lbs of protein per month, has expanded its work force, secured permits nationwide, made first sales, and scaled production 10x. Several iterations of patentable production equipment have improved the efficiency and increasing automation at the farm.
