People Love Chocolate Chirp Cookies – Montana’s Cowboy Cricket Farms – Montana’s First (and only) Cricket Farm

The idea is gaining traction in the states. The Rolins have consulted with several other farmers across the country and in early March won second place in the Montana Small Business Development Center’s Shark Tank competition, taking home $2,500. The waiting list for the farm’s wholesale products is three years long, the founders said.

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The two moved to Montana along with their three children, spending a year in Great Falls before uprooting to Bozeman, where they have lived for the past two. In James Rolin’s words, the Gallatin Valley is “by far the best place we’ve ever lived” — high praise from a couple who lived in 16 cities over the first eight years of their marriage.

By Lewis Kendall Chronicle Staff Writer

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