The Afri-CAN Café is proudly transforming all it’s food waste into high value agricultural protein feed. Nothing goes to waste. Daily, every last food scrap, off-cut, cucumber end, all the café’s left over’s – are collected and put into Gerald’s Fish Food Farm – aka ‘The Bug Barrel’.
Gerald Naidoo, one of the ACC first volunteers, now gathers all our food scraps and is feeding his fish at home and also selling the excess feed to local fish farmers from ‘The Bug Barrel’s’ daily crop. That is, when he’s not looking after the Afri-CAN Cafés fires and wood supply. 
The Bug Barrel is home to the Black Soldier fly (BSF) and its larvae eat all the cafés food waste. As these larvae reach adulthood they reproduce and leave the ‘farm’ and fall into very simply designed sealed buckets as a high protein fish feed. This is a lucrative biodiverse micro business and natural food source.
So not only are we recycling but Gerald has started a little side business from our waste. When Mark Lewis from The Biocycle/ Agriprotein Research Centre heard about Gerald’s passion for koi fish and his struggle to find decent affordable feed for them, he arrived armed with his patented ‘bug barrel’ and offered it to the The Afri-CAN Café as a micro business opportunity.
The rest of the team are all involved and eagerly filling our ‘bug’ bin daily. The men however are more eager to fill ‘The Bug Barrel’ than the ladies.