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Growing Truffles
Truffle Farming: A New Approach
You will often find hazel trees on modern truffle plantations but there is another kind of hazelnut orchard dotted around the countryside in southern Europe. These are relics from a different era, they are orchards planted almost one hundred years back in a time before mechanical harvesting. Forty years ago, the area we live in …
How to Grow Your Own Truffles
Besides growing wild in forests, many species of truffles can now be cultivated on a commercial scale. In the 1970s new inoculation techniques were developed in France which lead to truffle cultivations springing up all around the world from the USA to Argentina and from the UK to Australia. These truffle orchards are usually set …
