Farming snails 1: Learning about snails; Building a pen; Food and shelter plants: Plant the food and shelter plants: When are the plants big enough for food and for shelter?

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?

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

118. The food plants must be big enough to feed your snails and the shelter plants tall enough to cover them and to protect them from the sun.

119. Depending on the kind of snails that you are raising, most plants will be big enough after they have been growing for about five to six weeks or when they have reached a height of 10 to 20 centimetres.

Plants will grow to a height of 10 to 20 cm.

120. When you are sure that the plants are big enough to provide food and shelter, you can begin to collect the snails and put them into the pen.

121. In Booklet No. 34, Farming snails 2, you will learn

• how to choose good snails and how to put them in the pen

• how to take care of your snails

• when and how to harvest snails

• how to prepare snails for cooking

122. You will also be told some things that you can do to improve your snail farm so that later when you have more experience you can raise more and better snails.