Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.): Learning about snails: Where can you get snails?

Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.)

Learning about snails

		(introduction...)
		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

28. When you are ready to get snails, perhaps you can get them by gathering wild snails that live near you.

Gathering wild snails

29. Perhaps you can buy them from people who gather wild snails to sell to others.

Buying from one who gathers wild snails

30. You may even be able to buy them from another snail farmer.

Buying from another snail farmer

Note
Never term snails that you buy at the market. Snails at the market may have been washed, kept too cold or hurt and they may die soon.