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| our pet snail, "Gal" eating a carrot peel |
I temporarily adopted two snails for four weeks in January. I found one in a driveway on my way home one morning. I thought my daughter, who was home sick, and I would take care of him until my son came home. We learned about caring for snails and the next day decided to buy a little tank, find him a friend, and keep him for a bit. I found that while I was gathering food for our snails, I was learning about conservation. I could give them peels of carrots and ends of veggies that might have otherwise been thrown away.
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| my stock pile with peels, stems, and greens |
And that is how keeping snails led me to begin making chicken and vegetable stock from food scraps.
For some time I have been meaning to start saving vegetable scraps that could be used to make soup stock. However, it wasn't until I started keeping snails that I really started paying attention to what was worth saving.
