Cultivating truffles in Sonoma County? It has been an intriguing idea since Henry Trione first explored it with his friend J. Ralph Stone in the 1970s. But growing truffles in Sonoma County didn’t ...

While they might stink to us, native marsupials just love them. Potoroos, bandicoots and native mice are total truffle junkies, according to native truffle expert Andrew Claridge. These animals often ...

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I like traditions and rituals -- especially those that involve food, whether simple or elaborate. Every time I go to a sports event, I take my own peanuts, purchased by mail from a company in Virginia ...

This year, skip the master gardening class about how to keep whiteflies out of your orange trees. Forget the annual pilgrimage to the nursery for zucchini starts. Plant your own truffle trees and grow ...

Last spring, I stood in an orchard in eastern Tennessee with a man who cupped in his hands one of the earth’s great treasures. It was black and coarse, about the size of a baby’s fist, and covered in ...

From the surface, there’s not much going on in the orchard at Burwell Farms in rural North Carolina: loblolly pines grow in perfect, orderly rows, brown trunks and green needles in a hypnotizing grid ...

Oregon joins a trend in which dogs sniff out the fragrant fungi while keeping the surrounding area intact By LAURA McCANDLISH Special to The Oregonian Until last year, Gusto, a 6-year-old ...

In the foothills of the Pyrenees, two dozen women dressed in green lab coats stand at an industrial sorting machine inside a vast warehouse filling gray plastic bins with thousands of dollars worth of ...

EAGLE, Idaho — A tinge of excitement is running through the handful of farmers in this area who are trying to grow what they call “Idaho’s other tuber.” Paul Beckman, the first person to plant truffle ...