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Sad day having to cut up one of our oldest Truffle trees, blown down in a storm a couple of weeks ago. Measured 1.5 m diameter at its widest point! 

Even the supermarkets have realised what a great investment Truffles are ! 25 Apr 2019 Waitrose & Partners Plants its Own Truffle Tree Orchard in Supermarket First   The Waitrose & Partners Farm on the Leckford Estate in Hampshire has planted a small truffle orchard to celebrate its 90th year of farming as part of the John Lewis Partnership. The orchard is made up of Oak and Hazel trees that have had a summer truffle species added to their roots, enabling what is often described as ‘black gold’ - the fruit of the fungi - to grow. The trees are expected to start producing a meaningful yield of truffles in around five to seven years.  The species of truffle has...

Due to time constraints we have had to stop doing our Truffle Experience tour and replaced it with Truffle Hunting, a much shorter tour, but still a relaxing and informative couple of hours or more and we have now included bubbles !

The latest field ploughed and being prepared for planting

So this is our latest member to our Truffle Hunting family, she is a Lagotto Romagnola and is nearly 4 weeks old, so not able to join us for a few weeks yet.  Then she will be joining Mela our other Lagotto in finding everyones Truffles!