Despite their unassuming character, snails are great at lots of things. Different species of the shelled gastropod can impress with their ability to sprint, poison, or leave way too many embryos on ...

Heliciculture has become one of the newest and fastest growing industries in the United States. Heliciculture, the process of snail farming, is being developed by a number of individuals. The market ...

On the North Shore of Long Island in New York, nestled between vineyards growing grapes for pinot noir and a herd of French cows, is a very small farm – only 300 square feet – where Taylor Knapp ...

Fact: 99.9% of restaurants that have escargot on their menu received them in a can from France. Why? No other options. Fresh, never frozen snails are impossible to obtain, even for the country's best ...

VERESNYA, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian farmer was living a quiet life with the quietest of creatures: snails that she raises for export. Then, skies on the horizon turned flaming red. Russia had ...

EUREKA, Calif. — Business is slow for entrepreneur Charity Anais West, but she isn’t surprised. She owns and operates EscarGrow Farms, one of the only snail farms in the nation. “I grew up in ...

CUTCHOGUE, N.Y.—Life on the nation’s only USDA-certified snail farm is, as one might imagine, pretty slow. And quiet. And small, with the entire farm contained within one 300-square-foot greenhouse in ...

While it's typical to drive through northeast Wisconsin and see a number of farms, one entrepreneur is a step closer to opening the Midwest's first snail farm in downtown Green Bay. “A lot of people ...

Wangui Waweru explains the production process of snails right from hatching to maturity at her farm in Nakuru County. [Mercy Kahenda, Standard] When Wangui Waweru was served dry fried snails at her ...

A few years ago, after working at world-renowned, cutting-edge restaurants like Copenhagen’s Noma, Taylor Knapp was shocked to learn that many of America’s top chefs got their escargots from (gasp!) a ...

Terry Ball is 79 years old, runs a snail farm in Lancashire, England, and has spent years helping landlords cheat local councils out of millions in business rates. His method: breed snails in empty ...