SUN JOURNAL • March 26, 2020
Brother and sister Bill and Susan Broadbent and their company Entosense heard last summer that food distribution giant Sysco was looking for edible insects. They reached out, and now they’re on the menu. Grocers and restaurants can buy a pound or more of eight different offerings, including gourmet black ants, Manchurian scorpions, grasshoppers and bee pollen. All of the insects are coming from outside suppliers. Entosense shut down its Hill Mill cricket farm last year after deciding it needed to either be a lot larger or they should focus just on sales, Broadbent said. They may revisit the farm as a separate business in the future. The five-year-old company’s been on a good growth trajectory,