Feed The Change

This is Mikky and Ra from the year 2053. We need your help. Check out the 'About Us' section to find out more.

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Our last post (for now). It’s actually really hard for me to write I didn’t expect to feel so connected to you guys but I do. Your responses have exceeding our expectations. When we wrote this we didn’t know if it would even reach you but now...well you guys are like our family. We finally have a community, we finally have food and everyone seems determined to never let the planet get like this. Every person has the potential to achieve so much, I think we forget that. Hopefully you guys have seen the impact you’ve made in such as short time and will continue including insects in your diet. If you don’t well, we’ll be in touch! But joking aside, thank you guys so much. I really look forward to meeting you guys in a few decades. 

- Ra

She’s actually crying guys. She’s going to be a mess for days, we will really miss you. But you guys need to get out there and just enjoy living and loving the world we have. We have lots of work to do here as well, things will need maintaining but we’ll do our best. So thank you for all your help. I can’t imagine what we’d have done without you. 

Over and out. 

Mikky

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Our latest meal! Insect tacos! They were so good, how amazingly good it is to have proper food again. For more ideas for meals with insects in them check out the recipe section of our blog! 

Photo source: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-latest/64335-where-to-find-the-tasty-bugs-in-philadelphia

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You guys have spoken and you said you wanted more pictures of Mikky. I don’t know why but I guess I have to oblige. I guess he’s not that bad...Anyway he wants to write something on here. 

Hey guys. Mikky here. Ra’s taken this blog over but I wanted to have a chance to thank you guys as well. It’s been a good week. I went out exploring for a bit trying to find some people who know more about gardening than me. I met a guy called Saul and turns out he’s a retired gardner. He was a good guy and said he had a proper greenhouse in pieces that he would help me assemble as long as he could have a share of the crops we grow. That’s a deal I can’t refuse! I’m actually getting pretty into gardening. Who knew we’d miss plants as much as this. We take stuff for granted. We have to remember to look to the future even if we can’t see it yet. One day you’ll be living in this world and hopefully by then it will be even better. So let’s keep taking care of it. That’s it from me folks, sorry to get all ‘deep’ on you, but thank you for listening to us. 

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It’s almost been a year! Can you guys believe it? We’ve loved chatting to you and we’re just so happy you answered our call. I hope you’re feeling the rewards as much as we are. The garden has changed a fair bit recently. We managed to salvage together a tunnel to grow more advanced crops in it. Mikky is actually pretty handy with construction, who’d have guessed? Things are also growing now, these beautiful yellow flowers bloomed the other day. We aren’t sure what they are, we lost a lot of knowledge but there are people around now who’ll know what to do. Don’t lose touch, keep eating those insects and soon you won’t be able to remember a time where you didn’t. 

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6 months in! We’ve got a garden. Mikky and I eat 3 meals a day now, and we’re finally crowing some crops to include in our diet. We’ll post some more pictures when they’ve grown a bit more. 

We also had some fish yesterday! We went down to a local harbour and a fisherman actually had a little stall up. There weren’t many but it means the seas are repopulating now. Things are starting to right themselves, we just have to be careful to keep it that way. We can’t ignore the essentials and forget about the basics. Making sure everyone’s fed and has enough water is what’s the most important. We forgot that, but I’ve got a feeling you guys won’t now. You all are getting more adventurous with the insects you’re eating as well! We both thought that @redrocketgirl’s meal looked especially good the other night. So we’ll let you know when the garden is blooming. We can’t wait! 

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The world seems lighter. I’m sure you’ve been noticing it too. When we first started posting I didn’t realise how dark and dingy everything was. There was hardly any green left but now things are brighter and fresher and just...well...alive! Mikky has taken this photo of me to prove it too you in the same spot as one of the first photos we’ve taken. Look at the difference! It’s insane. 

(Unfortunately your moody facial expression hasn’t changed!) - Mikky

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We’ve grown some plants! This was my idea this time. Mikky thought it was too soon but I believed in the power of you guys and its worked! The last few days we’ve had an influx of videos, perhaps because you’re all starting to realise that insects are actually pretty tasty and that they’re too good to waste. We thought that @tammysellas and @ryanflux were particularly intrepid with their insect experiences! As a result the soil started looking better and better and on a whim I planted a few seeds that I have kept with me for years. It’s been a week now and look what we’ve got! A plantlet! I’m so excited it’s ridiculous. Mikky keeps rolling his eyes but inside he knows this is a big deal. If we can grow food we’ll start setting the farming balance right again. Now I know this plantlet isn’t perfect, I think something tried to eat it but its under my constant watch now. I don’t think it will be long until things are popping up all over the place. We saw that cabbage ages ago but now they’re dotted around the countryside. We can’t thank you guys enough. Keep eating insects and who knows what else is possible. 

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So yesterday we posted up a video of a cricket we found. Today we went a step further. Mikky thought it might have escaped from somewhere and well I guess I should start listening to him more. We found a small cricket farm just off a small road near where we live. The guy was really friendly and let us take a look round. Did we tell you guys that insects are 12x more efficient to farm than cattle? It’s not hard to see why. They take up way less space and they require 20x less feed than cows do. So we don’t have to use up precious land in order to feed our food. Keep sending in those videos, some of you lot are getting really creative with your insect meals! We’re impressed. Particular shoutouts to @hollywellsi and @connortappen, hopefully you can see what a difference you’re making here. 

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We caught a cricket! You have to be careful how you store them if you catch them in the wild. Make sure you pierce plenty of holes in a plastic box and some cardboard inside gives the cricket somewhere to perch. He’s not that big at the moment but he’ll grow fast. We think he escaped from a farm. Anyway he’ll make some food! 

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The bad news is: we didn’t see any fish when we went to the beach. We did however see some fishing boats so perhaps they found something we didn’t. The people now seem much more aware of sustainable farming practises, obviously whilst you guys were implementing the insect schemes you changed the way we farmed traditionally as well. Which is great. Thank you. We hadn’t expected that. Of course we’ll have to keep an eye out, make sure that we don’t take too much, but things are so much more positive here. 

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It’s weird starting to see people around more. They don’t know what’s happened, they don’t know that they weren’t here before. Sometimes we feel our memories slipping too, we think that’s time reworking things in our head. It’s nice to have you guys as a constant, we love hearing about your insect experiences. Mikky said he thought that @llannaraleigh and @terranceoheilly made some pretty good chirpin’ brownies! Did you guys get the recipe off our blog?

Today Mikky and I went scavenging and caught a whole lot of food. We even saw a wild turkey! That’s unheard of! We didn’t catch it because Mikky throws spears like he’s brushing his hair, but still it just shows the impact you guys are having. Before there was no meat, we’d used up everything. People ate too much. Now you are eating bugs as well, meat is starting to reappear. Being sustainable is a fine balance but obviously now we’re starting to tip the scales in the right direction. We’re going to head to the sea tomorrow to check for fishes. The oceans stopped being a food source just before 2050. We’re hoping that’s now starting to change. Fingers crossed!

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Exciting news!! Our world is changing and it’s all thanks to you. Today we met an insect farmer trading on the roadside! She’s called Soraya and we bought a large portion of grasshoppers off her, she’s also got an idea for a product for you guys to make it easier, something called Fuel? Apparently its insects all ground up (so they’re invisible) in soups and sauces. Soraya is hoping that she can send some back through time so you can try some. That will help things here as well. If it does work she’s told us to offer you all 50% off. We’re going to have our insects for dinner later. We thinks it’s because @staceysahra and @mattchann posted up videos of their families all eating insects. The time continuum is a strange thing but we’re just so happy that our theory is proving to be correct. Keep eating insects and we’ll keep you posted!

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Finally! A photo of Mikky. Excuse the dirt, he was digging around for grubs all morning. Luckily we managed to find a few. I just wish we’d all adopted eating insects sooner, then there would be farms around. 

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We should probably introduce ourselves better. 

Hopefully lots of you managed to see us on your TV screens but for those of you who didn’t, hi, I’m Ra. I’m 19 years old. I live with my friend Mikky who I’ll hopefully get a picture of later. It took us a while to figure out the camera. You see we have all this technology here but no people to maintain it. Electricity for example still exists, but of course there’s no one monitoring it so we have to use a generator. This was taken in one of my old friend’s house. They aren’t around anymore. There are so few of us. Everyone knew that the population would grow, but what they didn’t predict was how quickly the food would run out for good. Those who didn’t fight for it didn’t get food. We were the lucky ones. 

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You guys have tweeted us, you got our message. You don’t know how happy that makes us, things were starting to feel rather lonely. I know you are reluctant to eat insects and we understand, we were too, but actually they’re pretty good. We’ve got a recipe section on our blog with some ideas of how to cook them. Insects are surprisingly good for you, they provide twice the protein of beef ounce for ounce. Locusts for example are 75% protein whereas chickens are only 31% protein. So we’re not just making it up. We managed to get some of our own insects today, maybe the first sign of change. They were gathered around our hut, so we caught them and cooked them. It was a feast! We even found a patch of soil with a lettuce in it. Things seem to be looking up. Please keep eating the insects!

Until next time,

Mikky and Ra

Image source: https://uk.pinterest.com/source/davidgeorgegordon.com

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We’re hoping this reaches you...

We’ve run out of time. In fact we’ve run out of everything. Food barely exists anymore. The fields have had it, they aren’t yielding anything anytime soon. The only thing we do have is technology. This is our last shot. Our only shot. We don’t know if this will reach you, but if it does we need your help. First there’s something you need to know…you might want to sit down. This is a message from the future, from the year 2053. My name is Ra and I’m writing this with the help of my friend Mikky. We’re some of the last people alive in Europe. Everyone else is gone. It’s all because of the food, farming was unsustainable and now we have nothing left.

That’s where you come in. We believe that we can still change things, that you can change things for us. Everything has consequences and if we help you choose the right things to eat now, maybe that will affect us here in the future. We’re desperate and I know it sounds selfish, but we’re the children of your generation and you’ll be living in this world with us.

The answer to our problem is surprisingly simple. Insects. I know, who’d have thought it. Now you may feel slightly sick thinking about insects but let me tell you, scavenged scraps are much worse. Insects are the sole reason the rest of the world are okay, 80% of the population already ate them, but they still don’t have enough to share with us. 

So please, the more we see you guys starting to eat insects, the more we believe our world and your future world, will start to change.

We’ve found out one of the most popular ways to chat in this time is through ‘tweets’? The platform with the little blue bird. So we’ve linked our tweets to this blog. Get out there, eat some insects and watch our story change before your eyes, just don’t forget to mention us with the hashtag #feedthechange. If you guys have any questions don’t hesitate to ask either. We’ll be writing more soon.

Mikky and Ra.