I’m a snail farmer. My goal is to become one of the biggest snail farmers in Africa. I’m starting small, but I want to raise millions of them—herds of snails, hordes of snails, swarms of snails.

If you have a worm bin at home, you understand the efficiency of invertebrates. A healthy colony of red wrigglers can eat their collective weight every day, recycling your kitchen scraps into worm ...