A innovative, smart mealworm home perfect for home education teaching about all things sustainability, food waste and circular systems.

The Hive Explorer: Your Smart Insect Home

Sustainability learning at home and in school
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Close The Food Waste Loop

The Hive Explorer is the beginning of your sustainable lifestyle. It will take you on a journey of up-cycling food waste, producing natural fertiliser and learning how to live sustainably from our oldest allies: insects

Smart And Compact - The Hive Explorer's Design And Technology Awards:

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Three Ways To Be A Zero Waste Hero:

Hive Hero At Home

Learn how to start a circular system (or a closed loop, as we like to call it) right from your home with your kitchen leftovers. Feed them to your ‘mealies’ 🐛  and watch them turn your waste into nutrients.

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Hive Hero By Learning

The Hive Explorer does not come alone. There are plenty of ways to use it, and we made sure to pack everything you can learn in a multitude of info-rich resources. Check out your magazine, online webinars and use our science kit to get a closer look!

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Hive Hero At School

Students deserve out-of-the-box learning that sticks! We take a learn-by-daring approach to STEM, the Hive Explorer curriculum is designed to be ready to roll, hands on and empowering for learners. Aligned with most international curricula, take your students on a thirteen lessons journey to a more sustainable lifestyle.

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Explore Unlimited Possibilities

Enter the world of sustainability and learn how to close the food waste loop with The Hive Explorer’s activities

Zero Waste Home

Explore How Insects Upcycle Your Food Waste

Feed your mealworms your kitchen scraps and harvest them as an alternative protein and collect their poop as fertiliser
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Education Exercises

Experiment With Mealworm Powered Clean Air

Find out how mealworm poop fertilises microalgae cultures to power their CO2 absorbing effect
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Zero Waste Home

Treat Your Plants With Mealworm Fertiliser

Mealworms droppings or 'Frass' as we like to call it is the perfect fertiliser for your plants
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Education Exercise

Learn How To Code Using The Hive Explorer

Our coding lesson allows you to connect you laptop to The Hive Explorer and change and control its hardware and technology
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Education Exercises

Practice Growing Edible Greens On Mealworm Poop

Use mealworm fertiliser to stimulate the growth of healthy microgreens
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You Are In Good Company! Other Hive Heroes Have Said...

It helps me create a little cycle at home: vegetable scraps become bug feed, bugs become source of protein.

Natalia, NL

It's fascinating breeding your own livestock, and it is cool seeing the life stages.

Theresa, AT

I like the idea, the product itself that it is compact; I would never think about growing worms at home without that, even though I tried at least once the mealworm dishes before.

Martin, USA

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The Hive Explorer Set
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The Hive Explorer Set

$149.00
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Free shipping to the US, EU and most Asian countries. Canada and Mexico: please check the description box, you can purchase the Hive Explorer through the link there!
UK and IRELAND: Currently no shipping possible due to the Corona crisis. 
Canada and Central+South America Notice: we are facing some difficulties with shipping to your region right now. In the meantime, you can purchase the Hive Explorer here. 
Free Shipping to most regions in USA, EU + Asia
*Don't forget to choose the right plug type for your region*

Start a sustainable ecosystem right at home and schools and grow protein and fertilizer to provide for your pets, yourself, and your garden.

What it includes :

  • The Hive Explorer Desktop Mealworm Farm
  • Automated Micro-Climate with Sensors, Safe Heatplate and Ventilation
  • 1 CleanAir Filter
  • 1 Hive Explorer Magazine
  • Science Experiment Pack (Magnifying Glass, 3 Petri Dishes, 3 Tweezers, & 1 Spoon)
  • Access to our Hive Community of Mealworm Farmers
  • Our unconditional love through personal online support (We speak English and German)
DOES NOT INCLUDE LIVE MEALWORMS. Purchase them here or at your local pet store. 

**For customers in the European Union, VAT will be charged at check-out. For customers outside of the European Union, VAT and taxes might be applicable at the moment of import and the customer is responsible for any such import charges, by example, applicable taxes, fees, VAT, customs including but not limited to sales, use, excise, or similar taxes levied under federal, state or local tax laws.

Please contact us if you cannot find your country in the list at check-out or in case of other questions about shipping. Our shipping costs cover safe transportation, tracking and insurance.

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle

$294.00
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Free shipping to the US, EU and most Asian countries. Canada and Mexico: please check the description box, you can purchase the Hive Explorer through the link there!
Free Shipping to most regions in USA, EU + Asia
UK and IRELAND: Currently no shipping possible due to the Corona crisis. 

Canada and Central+South America Notice: we are facing some difficulties with shipping to your region right now. In the meantime, you can purchase the Hive Explorer here. 
*Don't forget to choose the right plug type for your region*

Learn more in-depth about sustainability, green technology and about all the superpowers of insects in nature. Start a sustainable ecosystem right at home or in the classrooms and grow proteins and fertilizer to provide for your pet, yourself, and your garden.

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle includes:

      • The Hive Explorer Desktop Mealworm Farm
        • Automated Micro-Climate with Sensors, Safe Heatplate and Ventilation
        • 1 CleanAir Filter
        • 1 Hive Explorer Magazine
        • Science Experiment Pack (Magnifying Glass, 3 Petri Dishes, 3 Tweezers, & 1 Spoon)
        • Access to our Hive Community of Mealworm Farmers
        • Our unconditional love through personal online support (We speak English and German)

Plus:

      • Live Mealworm Starter Kit
        (only in supported regions EU, USA, China and Hong Kong)

      • 5 sustainability lessons
        Guided curriculum and exercises for 5 class or home lessons with exercises for download to print yourself

      • A0 poster
        a beautiful sustainability themed A0 poster in PDF form


**For customers in the European Union, VAT will be charged at check-out. For customers outside of the European Union, VAT and taxes might be applicable at moment of import and the customer is responsible for any such import charges, by example applicable taxes, fees, VAT, customs including but not limited to sales, use, excise, or similar taxes levied under federal, state or local tax laws.

Please contact us if you cannot find your country in the list at check-out or in case of other questions about shipping. Our shipping costs cover a safe transportation, tracking and insurance.

Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching

Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching

$230.00
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Free shipping to the US, EU and most Asian countries. Canada and Mexico: please check the description box, you can purchase the Hive Explorer through the link there!

Wondering how to get the most out of your educational work with Hive Explorer? We have developed a ready-to-go curriculum for you with 13 lessons and more than 25 hours run-time:

  • Hands-on exercises and worksheets
  • covering a variety of topics related to mealworm farming, insect eating, nitrogen cycles, growing of microalgae and cooking!
  • see more details on each lesson here
  • download a sample lesson here
  • see curriculum alignment to standards here

What's Included:

• Download 13 fully developed lessons. Each of the lessons contains:

  1. Lesson Plan and Teacher Guide
  2. Lesson Presentation PPT + PDF
  3. Lesson Notes for Delivering the PPT without prior preparation
  4. Worksheet for hands-on exercises + Resources & Material List

• Standards aligned

• Vocabulary

• For use with the Hive Explorer Set or Hive Explorer Educator Set (Hive Explorer is not included)

 

Recommended Use:

STEM Classes, Biology Classes, Geography Classes, Liberal Studies Classes, Environmental Science Classes, Summer Schools, Workshops

Mealworms available for our Smart Mealworm home, The Hive Explorer
Mealworms available for our Smart Mealworm home, The Hive Explorer
Mealworms available for our Smart Mealworm home, The Hive Explorer
Mealworms available for our Smart Mealworm home, The Hive Explorer

Live Mealworms Starter Kit

$30.00
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Free shipping to the US, EU and most Asian countries. Canada and Mexico: please check the description box, you can purchase the Hive Explorer through the link there!

Shipping fee included: We ship from locations within EU, USA, China and Hong Kong. Not shipping to the UK and Ireland.  

Starter Kit with approximately 100g of live mealworms matching your Hive Explorer setup to get you right into growing. Instructions are of course included. We will coordinate your starter kit shipping with your Hive Explorer shipping. Please note that we will not ship individually ordered starter kits earlier than the first Hive batch shipment. We appreciate your understanding. Please refer to updates on shipping status of Hives.

Out of hygiene and safety reasons, we recommend to only consume the second generation of mealworms that you grow in your Hive Explorer. 

If you are allergic to shellfish, you might also be allergic to insects.

This will ship AFTER Hive Explorer is shipped. We will arrange shipping with you in order to make sure the live mealworms arrive healthily in your home.

*Starter Kit packaging is subject to variation. By purchasing, you agree to the following:
I understand that there is no guarantee of this shipment and I do not hold Livin Farms Ltd accountable. The livelihood of mealworms would be at risk depending on many factors including but not limited to the courier's handling and suppliers' handling. Even so, Livin Farms will take all precautions on arranging the package to you. All mealworms purchases are excluded from a refund, return, or exchange. Even though we do our very best to ensure safe and healthy arrival of your starter kit mealworms, we cannot guarantee the condition of mealworms arriving.