Ducks as a snail solution in The Biggest Little Farm

Biodiversity is difficult...

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Heather: All the leaves disappeared from the lemon trees.

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Laurel: Try some snail killer.

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Heather: Isn’t there a biodiversity solution?

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Laurel: Meaning?

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Heather: Well, instead of poison baits, can’t we bring in some other animal to eat the snails?

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Snails, yum!

Laurel: Like ducks?

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Heather: Mmm. Closest I have is a duck dish I bought in Angoulême.

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Voice-over

A 2018 film, The Biggest Little Farm, directed by John Chester during eight years of running an ecological, organic farm on biodiversity principles showed the use of ducks to stop snails from infesting their lemon trees. Good method, good film.

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