Posted on 11/01/2024 6:46:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
"According to Cell Press, as Science Daily shared, scientists have found a way to harvest proteins and vitamins from microbes by feeding them a diet of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide
The researchers created a two-stage bioreactor to produce their desired results. In the first stage, the bacteria Thermoanaerobacter kivui is fed carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which it converts into acetate. That acetate is then fed into the second stage of the reactor, containing baker's yeast, which feeds on the acetate and oxygen to produce both vitamin B9 and protein.
The amount of B9 and protein produced by the yeast is considerable, as well. Less than half a tablespoon of dried yeast contains your daily required value of B9, while the yeast produced more protein than beef, pork, fish, or lentils.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given the concentration of brewers in Wisconsin I could see this being a big Agricultural industry in Wisconsin! (Much better than crickets or Black Soldier Fly Larvae, at least for humans!)
I’m seeing Stevia plants available more and more. :)
A favorite ‘smell’ from childhood was the smell of the yeast in the breweries in Milwaukee. I often wondered what they did with the ‘leftovers’ from brewing - which must be a massive amount of by-product!
Well, now I know! It supposedly cuts down ‘methane emissions’ in cows. ;)
Recycling Used Beer Yeast for Environmental Protection
Brewer’s yeast used to make beer is typically discarded once it’s no longer needed. Sometimes, though, the leftover yeast is mixed into livestock feed as a source of protein and vitamins. Now, there may be even more reason to continue this practice, according to findings by a team of scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Warren Wilson College, (WWC) and Asheville Sustainability Research (ASR), LLC of Asheville, North Carolina.
Laboratory results the team published in the journal Frontiers in Animal Science suggest that using leftover brewer’s yeast as a feed additive may benefit the environment by helping cows belch less methane into the air as a greenhouse gas that contributes to global climate change. Agriculture accounts for 11 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (5,981 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent), with ruminant animals including cows responsible for more than a quarter of that total.
Nutritional yeast provides a pretty full B vitamin spectrum. During WWI the British supplied troops with yeast containing stuff like Vegemite or Marmite to counter nutritional diseases. You can currently buy nutritional yeast from places like Trader Joes. Has a cheesey taste. You can put it dishes to provide Uamni, a bit like Parmisan cheese.
Lets see what this new product is like. If we don't like it we can go back to including it in cattle feed stock and have it in the form of edible meat! (Yeast in your silage has to be better than feeding cattle soy meal filled with phyto estrogen that we end up eating as marbled beef fat and tallow and turn a generation of men in to SoyBois!)
Good Morning! :-)
Great gif. Thank you.
I’ve read that guinea fowl love ticks and will eagerly gobble them up. But they can be rather noisy. Opossums will also gladly eat ticks (and other creepy crawlies) and are much quieter.
We’ve thought about guinea fowl, but we almost always have a puppy or two in training, running loose. That would be the end to them.
We have a healthy possum population around here.
Beau and I talked about this just last night and going forward we’re going to use the topical solutions, but also start giving everyone the chewable as well. It won’t be cheap, but cheaper than trips to the Vet and treatment for Lyme disease. That’s usually a 30 day antibiotic daily dose, but in our experience, dogs that get Lyme Disease are never quite up to snuff afterwords, so prevention is the key. :(
Nice GIF! The view out my window this morning is pitch dark and snowing! It’s about 6 degress. It issupposed to be -35 Monday night.
Opossum Society of the United States (OSUS)
How to attract opossums to your property
https://opossumsocietyus.org/how-to-attract-opossums-to-your-property/
Love the gif...love Fall...hub blew leaves to mulch yesterday...wind came right behind him and blew more down.
I read your link...interesting...and, I always thought possums were only white.
I’d love to have more opposums here to deal with the ticks.
It’s been an extremely dry year here and ticks need moisture to survive, so I’m hoping that one benefit of this drought is a significant reduction in the tick population
I’d be happy to have something like Guinea hens to eat the ticks, but am NOT interested in the noise from them.
This has great bok choy recipes. www.chinasichuanfood.com/
Gorgeous day - sunny, with a breeze. It’s currently 57 & should get up to around 62. The air doesn’t have a hard, cold edge to it ... softer, but not as ‘soft’ as spring air. I love it after the cold, rainy day Thursday & a cloudy, chilly day yesterday.
My goal for the day was to get a new lockset on my bedroom balcony door. No telling how old the old one was, but it was very difficult to lock and lately, turning the knob wasn’t moving the latch ...very annoying.
So I bought a new lock set & set about to get rid of the old, install the new. First issue ... hidden screws. I found a video that resolved that issue. Next issue - latch hole was 7/8th inch & new latch required a 1 inch hole. I have a 1 inch drill bit, but trying to drill away the 1/8th ‘edge’ of the hole seemed to me to be difficult & I figured I’d make a mess. So what worked - getting a file set from the Farm Bureau & filing the hole until the latch assembly fit. Once the latch was in, it was just a matter of screwing the outside & inside together & putting on a new strike plate (old screw holes worked - yay!). Voilà ... a new knob that works!
Next project ... find my shoes! I have flip flops, garden clogs & tennis shoes, but my ‘dress’ shoes are somewhere & I would like to wear something besides tennis to church. I don’t remember packing the shoes, but I know I did (old bedroom is empty). Somewhere, out there (in a box) ... :-)
My chili is turning into perpetual beans. Tossed another can of black beans and diced tomatoes in it. Topped yellow rice with it last night and for lunch today. We’re doing wraps tonight. Fajita style for my son and I’ll be throwing the rest of the rice and some beans in with chicken for a burrito.
Started burning leaves yesterday but it’s a bit windy today. I have half the driveway visible now. Should be able to get more done tomorrow.
"caption on Unsplash...."A Black soldier Fly standing on Bright yellow flowers - MEET THE FLY THAT COULD HELP SAVE THE PLANET?"
Video is pretty clinical, but if you do not like their pupae wiggling around you might not like this.
Make Fast Compost At Home With Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Some people at the WEF would probably consider this "Edible protein", and they are right, its edible by poultry and farmed fish. which we in turn can eat!
Looked at this today because I need to clean out my tumbling composter which is loaded with the larvae and I was trying to figure out how to overwinter them. They can survive down to about -17F, so I will probably bury them in compost and rice hulls under a cover in quiet corner of my garden. Based on her reaction to several weeks with Mason bees on the bottom shelf 2 years ago, I doubt that Mrs. Pete would be happy with even a small box of fly larvae in the refrigerator all winter.
I lived near Stephen Gaskin's "Summertown" in Tennesee (way back when)>
We used to buy their nutritional yeast. It was great on popcorn! (& it is a little like parmesan! - good descriptor)
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