![]() ![]() After my second harvest then, we created a new business plan and said, ‘Right, what do we need to do to stay at home here full-time?’ For my first two or three years in snails I did them part-time alongside transport. photographed on their snail and suckler farm in Cavan. Peter Monaghan and his Family pictured for ICL July 2022. The thing that attracted me to it most was the small amount of land you needed for something that was going to keep you in a full-time wage and keep you at home too alongside the sucklers as well. In 2016, I basically decided to open up the business, Inis Escargot, and start snail farming. Teagasc had done some research on it as well. In 2015, I spent a bit of time doing research on snail farming throughout Europe and in Ireland. I didn’t pass too many remarks on it for a couple of years, but still kept in touch with it. For the amount you put in and what you get out, it just seemed too good to be true. I gradually started to hear more and more about it, but I never took it that seriously. In about 2012 or 2013, snail farming started to hit the papers. ![]() The income wouldn’t have been that attractive to me. There was never going to be an opportunity to stay at home and work full-time with sucklers, in my experience anyway. I’m 36 now and since I was 12 or 13 I always thought, we have land here, it mightn’t be a whole pile, but there’s bound to be something we can do here to make money? We’ve always operated about 20 sucklers here in Maghera, Co Cavan. ![]()
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