The Peasant Confederation will try to save Valérie Rabbé's snail farm. Ravaged by the rains, its production has come to a standstill. A gesture of solidarity that boosts morale and gives hope.
It was last July 21. The village of Meures was suffering floods without common measure. Up to 1.60 m of water in the habitations… This natural disaster completely destroyed livestock farming snails by Valérie Rabbé.
“It’s the water that killed my 40,000 snails”
Since then, this femme of 60 years old finds himself without resources struggling as best he can with the assurances and a snail farm to rebuild. “The water killed my 40,000 snails”sighs Valérie. Established for 20 years in Meures, this Chaumontaise of birth had obviously never experienced such an event.
A moment to forget
“I had 1 m of water in the house, we live upstairs today, it happened in the moment where the shell of snails is not yet formed, these animals cannot swim”she continues. Enough to take a big hit moral. It's a whole season and the income that goes with it goes down the drain.
Solidarity is organized
The Meures snail farm has carved out a beautiful reputation notably by participating in the Agricultural Show. Its transformation workshop and its visits educational also contributed to his fame. But faced with the whims of Natureis it…
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