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Re: Snail Farming.




>But, in another quirky twist, she's not
>seen a single snail! The land is pretty wild, and maybe the snails couldn't
>stand up to natural predators not present in sheltered town gardens

well, looking at it the deep way snails as well as slugs serve a purpose
where they are. apparently is is connected with healing the land - a fairly
famous organic market grower couple in austria (they wrote a book or two on
their method, including heavy mulch, live mulch, no till, no machines, no
manure-imports, vegan lifestyle, direct sales via enrollment only, etc)
recently shared, that they used to have a big but shrinking snail problem
for the first 13 years on their property. then they havent been an issue at
all for 10 or more years until they introduced a sub-surface irrigation
system a couple of years ago.

after 13 years of their way to care for the land and do their thing they
thing that the very high organic content and the stabilized ph relieved the
snails from their job. when they dug up their garden for the pipes they
disturbed the delicate balance, so now they are back. but they reckon that
the snails and slugs will be gone again before long.

greetings
georg