After you buy the hatchery upgrade, the farm will give the hint "Search the woods north of Shaliq." The hint is actually kind of important as you cannot find snails before you have the hatchery. While you explore there is map available in the top right of the screen. There is only a single woods node north(towards the top of the map) from Shaliq. It even has "woods" in the name; I tried to make the hint pretty obvious.
Gorn is probably fine as a home in sandbox mode, but in story mode only Wimborn should be used unless you are looking for a significant challenge.
i dont mind a challenge just hate using default stuff in games i see that shit i rebel LOL
everything in mansion is all unlocked has been for a long time i never messed with the farm before so thought id try some new stuff and i have no idea where the snails are i was up by elven forest done the quest where ya help the girl goto her village
has a funky ass outfit on wasnt meaning to do the quest just randomly bumped into her and thought well im here anyways may as well do her quest so i did meanwhile i was out that way looking for the darn snails
(forget all the names of arias i was )i was killing wolves bears oooze flowers spider things seen all there is to see but no snails
what map is it off of too (where snails are) i was even way out by the damn ocean and some weird caves until i died