The CricketPoo! Story
In the early 1950's, at the ripe old age of 26, Aubrey Ghann had a job as a welder, a passion for fishing, and a dream of owning his own business. One day he decided to quit dreamin' and start doin'. He quit his job, and started growing crickets for fish bait.
Now... back in those days not everyone knew about using crickets as bait (mostly just us folks down south), so Aubrey built a small wooden box to hold some crickets, loaded up his wife Helen and 4 yr. old daughter Fonda and went on a little drive to... "educate" folks. This show-and-tell trip meandered through the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and by the time Aubrey was done LOTS of people knew what a great fish bait crickets were. Aubrey's business began to prosper, and the cricket industry in the United States was born.
What Aubrey didn't know was how much, er... "poo" millions of crickets would produce each week. "What will we do with all that poo?" he wondered. "Well", he thought, "I reckon it might be a good fertilizer", so he put some on his garden, and... WOW! Aubrey grew the biggest, juiciest tomatoes, and the nicest cucumbers, squash, bell peppers, hot peppers, and okra around, and Helen's flower beds soon became the envy of all her friends. Everyone wanted to know what their secret was. Aubrey shared his secret with friends, and thus the use of "cricket poo" as an organic fertilizer was born.
Well... the Good Lord has blessed us over the years, and today Ghann's Cricket Farm is one of the largest cricket production facilities in the world, capable of producing over a billion crickets a year! Now we're talkin' some SERIOUS POO! So, we decided we ought to share it with the rest of the world. So we bottled it up, and here it is - CricketPoo!... the, uh... "end result" of our cricket operation!
Clay A. Ghann
President/CEO
Ghann's Cricket Farm, Inc.
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