Low-key farming, high-key curious

Didn’t plan on farming escargot. I work in a lab—data, tests, usual stuff. Then things changed. Since meeting Ozi, I began thinking more about where food comes from, how things grow, what’s actually sustainable.

A couple of years ago, when we met, wifey told me about her dream to raise escargot. I thought she was joking—until she broke up with me. That’s when I realized: she’s serious.

Also, she wanted snail mucin for skincare so I promised to be her partner in slime.

At first, it was out there. But then I met this homesteader out in North Carolina who was talking about snails being used in labs—for real stuff.

I started paying attention. Snail farming is low input, low waste, and it actually works for what we’re trying to build. Now I’m seeing snails everywhere—science, skincare, even food systems.

And yeah, I still skate. So of course my brain went: what if snail trails help with board slides? What’s the aerodynamics of a snail shell? Can we use gastropod mechanics for skate design? I don’t know yet. But it’s all connected.

Now I’m in it—networking, building partnerships, one step (or slime trail) at a time.