Hi Jackalope,

Do you have any idea when the next issue of the magazine is coming out? I love that mag
I don't know.....while I contribute some of the technical material, I don't publish it.

I hope to get some BSFL going one of these days ....... we only have about a 3 month growing season here in Montana, so I'm trying to get everything established inside ....... I don't know how BSFL will react to the -40F winters here ......
Since they are native to the warmer parts of the Americas, Black Soldier Flies are definitely temperature-sensitive. Even in Brisbane, which has a much milder climate than you've got, BSF larvae production slows markedly in winter.....so we freeze the surplus larvae during the warm months to enable us to feed them to our fish and chickens during the winter.

If I lived in Montana, I'd be contemplating a sunfacing greenhouse with plenty of in-built passive climate control. This would enable you to grow food year round.

You'll find more information about bio-shelters at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshelter
and http://www.vsb.cape.com/~nature/gree...ewalchemy.html and http://www.nature.my.cape.com/greenc...ioshelter.html

Gary