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Looking for a Waste Collection Truck Driver

Hiring @ Bardee

As a waste collection truck driver at Bardee, you will have a key role in scaling our collections and sharing our mission. You'll spend part of your day driving the truck on collections, with the ability to take on general tasks at our facility including the operation of electrical machinery.

Flushed away

Raghav Sharma

The fifteenth element on the periodic table. One of the three main macronutrients needed for plant growth and vitality. As part of the Green Revolution, we started mining phosphate rock to unlock 10X crop yields. As a result, fertilisers today are packed full of phosphorus, allowing our crops to grow strong and healthy. So what’s the problem?

Organic vs chemical fertilisers: what's all the fuss about?

Raghav Sharma

Ah, the organic vs chemical fertiliser debate. Mention it to any farmer or serious gardener, and the reactions will likely be passionate and varied. But what’s best for your plants and the planet?

How excess nitrogen is damaging our planet, and what we can do about it

Raghav Sharma

Nitrogen is incredibly important for plant growth and reproduction. But the way it’s commonly delivered to the soil – through synthetic fertilisers – can have a devastating impact on the environment.

Don't look to the sky, look at the ground!

Raghav Sharma

Droughts are a disaster that we Australians are far too familiar with. Scientists have suggested that the secret to drought resilience lies in the soil.

On the hunt for a superstar BDM

Help us tackle Australia’s 7.9B tonne food waste problem. We’re looking for a sales superstar to 10X Bardee’s sustainable impact by helping businesses to divert food waste from landfill.

Plants ❤️ (exo)skeletons 💀

Raghav Sharma

Your skeletal gardening superhero - here, we will begin a 4-part series where we do a deep dive on the magic of chitin for plants.

Join the team as an Industrial Electrician

Hiring @ Bardee

We’re hiring an Industrial Electrician to own electrical maintenance and installations of our manufacturing lines and environment controlled labs. Flexible hours, full time and part time available.

Join us as a Horticulture Sales Agronomist

Hiring @ Bardee

Bardee is on the hunt for an incredible Horticulture Sales Agronomist who’s excited to supercharge their career and bring new, sustainable fertiliser products to the Australian market.

Using agriculture to restore our planet

Raghav Sharma

We hear a lot about the effect agriculture has on the environment – both in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. But could it instead be used as a force for good in protecting our environment? Enter stage left, regenerative agriculture.

Small size, big impact

Raghav Sharma

It's not news that conventional meat and dairy farming can be pretty harmful to the environment. And it probably won't come as a surprise to you that right now, producing protein for people to eat, accounts for about 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions 🤯 What can we do about it?

The dirty secret weapon that can help us fight climate change

Raghav Sharma

What if we told you that soil can make a huge impact as part of a strategy to combat the climate crisis?

Join us as a Truck Driver

Hiring @ Bardee

We are looking for a casual truck driver ($35 per hour) to join our food waste logistics team for the weekend collections across Melbourne.

Does your pet have a sensitive stomach? Insect protein could be the answer

Raghav Sharma

We love our pets. Maybe a little too much. We pamper them, cuddle them, and want to provide them with the best - especially when it comes to their food, and ESPECIALLY when they’re a picky eater.

How to feed your pet more sustainably

Bailey Petts

Do you know what is actually inside your pet’s food? At Bardee we want to focus on our pets’ health as well as the health of our home. You know, home planet - earth.

Stop overfishing to feed livestock - use bugs instead!

Bailey Petts

Did you know overfishing in our oceans doesn’t just happen to feed humans? We overfish not just for our fancy salmon teriyaki or tuna sushi, but to feed our livestock.

Why is food waste a problem?

Bailey Petts

Well the clue is in the title, it’s wasted when it can be used for so much more.

Superfly versus Nematode

Bailey Petts

Reshaping the global food system with insects, producing protein and fertiliser is what we do, but it doesn’t come without any hurdles. At Bardee, we want to help avoid using chemical pesticides on food crops and this means finding ways to control harmful nematodes with our organic fertilisers.

Chitin: correct pronunciation to avoid profanity

Bailey Petts

How on earth do I pronounce it? *pun intended*

Living soil? Huh?

Bailey Petts

The soil is allllliiiiiiiiiiveeeee! Don’t worry, your soil isn’t going to morph into some kind of earthy monster and destroy your home but it is a living thing. Just like you and me. In fact, soil that isn’t alive with healthy microbes, is well, not soil at all, it’s dirt.

Fly Friends - Our partnership with ISPT

Hannah Johnston

Partnering up with other businesses is a great way to maximise the power of a circular economy, especially ones who share the same environmental commitments as Bardee.

Join us as Washbay Attendant

Hannah Neep

At Bardee, our ambition is to reshape the global food system. To do this, we breed billions of insects 🐛 to transform food waste 🥗 into insect protein for animal feed 🐶 and fertiliser 🌲 in our world-leading vertical farming system

SOS: Save our soil

Bailey Petts

Soil plays a crucial role in our climate, and soil degradation is a major contributor to the climate crisis. At Bardee we recognise we need to start from the ground up if we’re to combat this crisis, and save our soil.

Join us as an Insect Breeding Technician

Hiring @ Bardee

We’re hiring an Insect Breeding & Husbandry Technician to help scale our facility to its total capacity.

Join us as an Agri-Sustainability Operator

Hiring @ Bardee

We're hiring Agri-Sustainability Operators to help scale production at our facility to full capacity.

Bardee raises $5m to transform food waste into insect protein and fertiliser

Hannah Johnston

Melbourne-based Bardee announces it has raised $5M of funding to reshape the global food system by transforming food waste into protein and fertiliser with insects.

What is all the fuss about, with frass?

Hannah Johnston

Our wonderful friends at Plantrunner wrote a great article about the exciting benefits of our favourite fertiliser ingredient, frass!

Saved by Insects Athyna Podcast

Hannah Johnston

How Phoebe Gardner is Turning the Food System Into a Circular Economy