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Truffle establishment within a woodland

Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 15:37.

Throughout 2008 we are trailing another new approach to truffle cultivation that involves planting saplings within a woodland environment.

Our primary site is currently being prepared and will be planted with its first trail
plot (220 trees) in January/February 2008. The trail is a partnership-plantation and will eventually contain 1,100 trees spread across five plots with differing conditions.

A lot of time/expertise has gone into the preparation of this trial and updates will be published here as the trial progresses. The predictive benefits of this approach include a short time to harvest due to certain conditions found within the woodland.

If you have a woodland site and would like to try this approach,
please e-mail us for further details.

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  • Patches of bare earth ignite truffle dreams
    10/29/2008 - 09:55

    Some very exciting news- earlier this autumn we received photos from our welsh plantation showing a very distinct ‘brûlé’. A brûlé is a burnt-looking patch of ground, devoid of vegetation underneath the tree caused by the truffle fungus- these normally take several years to appear and signal imminent onset of fruiting of the truffle. This is particularly exciting as they have appeared on around 70-80% of trees planted last winter! With an average age of 9months (from planting), these results are every exciting indeed,