Slow at Grow

Great news! This summer the baby snails will be outside in the fresh air at Brogdale near Faversham. We have been lucky enough to be offered a site for the snail farm in ‘Grow’ the garden centre at the back of the plant centre next to the community allotments.

This is the 'before' view of the site.

The chickens seemed to think I was moving the bark chippings just for their benefit. We still have to take down the old hen house but they’ve already moved to smart new accommodation a few yards away. Today we started clearing the site for construction work to begin and look forward to opening to the public at the end of May. By then we hope frosts will be over so the snails can live happily outside.

So raise your glasses to Slow at Grow: the only open snail farm in Britain!