Farming snails 1: Learning about snails; Building a pen; Food and shelter plants: Introduction

Farming snails 1: Learning about snails; Building a pen; Food and shelter plants
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Introduction

What do you need to start?

Learning about snails

What kind of snails can you farm?

Where can you get snails?

Where can you farm snails?

The soil and the water in the soil

Plants for food and plants for shelter

Dew and rain

Land that is wet

Wind

Where do you keep snails when you farm them?

How many snails will you need when you first begin?

How much snail meat can you expect to get?

Now you must decide

How to begin

Choose a place on your land to put your snail farm

Clean the site and prepare the ground

Building a pen

Plant the food and shelter plants

When are the plants big enough for food and for shelter?

Introduction

1. Did you know that many kinds of snails are good to eat?

2. Snail meat tastes good and it is also good for you. If you have snail meat to eat, it will help to keep you and your family strong and healthy.

Family kept strong and healthy

3. If you want to have snails to eat you can get them in different ways.

4. Many people gather wild snails that live nearby. Sometimes you can buy snails at the market or from people who gather them to sell to others.

5. You can also raise your own snails. This is called snail farming. Today, a great many people all over the world farm snails.

6. If you farm your own snails, you will always have a supply of fresh snail meat whenever you want it.

7. Then, if your family is not too big and you grow more snails than you need to eat, you can sell what you do not use to your neighbours or at the market.

Selling snails at the market

8. With more food to eat and the money you get by selling snails, you and your family can live better.

9. However, if your family is big you will need to grow many more snails if you are going to have enough to eat and to sell at the market.

You need to grow more snails if your family is big