Sprout and baby leaf. An increasing number of people are addicted to the "kitchen garden" where vegetables are grown in the corner of the kitchen. The vegetables I cultivated are fresh. Moreover, the reason is that it is safe and secure.

Designer Mansour Ourasanah has developed a fashionable grasshopper farming kit "Lepsis" in collaboration with KitchenAid , which sells kitchen utensils. The prototype was released. With Lepsis, you will be able to "kitchen farm" fresh, safe and secure grasshoppers and locusts.


Lepsis responded to Ourasanah's proposal in May by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that "we should eat more insects to overcome the food crisis." He devised Lepsis, believing that in order to realize the UN proposal, it would be necessary to make it possible to cultivate insects easily and fashionably at home.


Ourasanah describes Lepsis as follows:

"To protect the global environment of the future, we need to abandon resistance to insect food and redefine our food framework."

Lepsis consists of four units, each of which has the role of "returning insect eggs," "growing," "harvesting," and "killing for eating." By combining the four units, it can be used as a stylish kitchen interior with a beautiful design. The prototype is 54 centimeters high and 38 centimeters wide.


In developed countries, many people have a strong resistance to eating insects. But with more attractive products like Lepsis, the resistance may be wiped out little by little.