“He thought I was a total nutcase.” When farmers watch 40 tons of lime salted over a single acre, the lime might as well be plutonium. But truffle soils need high pH and Michaels recommends ...
The best that truffle farmers can do is plant the right kind of oak and hazelnut trees in the right kind of light sandy soil – and then cross their fingers for seven years, hoping the spores ...
A scientific breakthrough, years of investment and some highly trained dogs have finally made it possible to consistently harvest truffles in the U.S. We visit North Carolina’s Burwell Farms for ...
But are truffles mushrooms in actuality? We asked Richard Franks, Chief Scientific Officer for Burwell Farms, if a truffle is a mushroom, why they're so expensive, what they look and taste like ...
Cristiano Savini hunting for white truffles in the winter In the 1920's Giuseppe Savini was a small-town farmer who would often go truffle hunting with his dog. He was the father of four children ...
And bounding in with the whiff came Meera, very different from the truffle dealers I’d come across during my childhood in Tuscany (who tended to be khaki-clad weather-beaten farmers). Instead, she was ...