| Truffle Orchards Growing in the Northwest |
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| Written by Heather McKee | |
| Monday, 15 December 2008 | |
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Truffles - the rich, rare and earthy fungi that peasants and kings have delighted in for over two thousand years - are getting harder to find. Because of severe regional drought, the wild harvests of some of the most coveted truffles in Spain, Italy and France are down as much as 70% from last year. The Northwestern U.S. remains moist as ever, however, and small-scale farmers there are just beginning to cash in on growing truffle orchards. Twenty farmers in Washington have planted hazelnut orchards and inoculated them with truffle spores. Truffles are the velvety fruiting bodies (mushrooms) of the fungal genus Tuber. Tuber prefers to grow in alkaline soils among the roots of oaks and hazelnuts, and is the only group of fungi to produce mushrooms underground. (Hence all the pigs and dogs needed to sniff out the truffles.) U.S. truffle producers have a solid opportunity to take over the market here, since the U.S. slapped a 100% tarriff on European truffles after the Europeans banned our hormone-ladden beef. Selling for one thousand dollars a pound, just one acre of an orchard producing truffles can add $24,000 to $35,000 a year to a farmer's bottom line. Large individual truffles have sold for more than $300,000. The catch? It takes at least a decade for a truffle orchard to mature. Via Puget Sound Business Journal
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