Flash forward six years to when I, Kassandra the daughter, decided people in southern California were going crazy and paying too much for real estate and so decided to cash out my vast 1/2 acre mobile home/house hybrid and flee to Kern County to start a new life. I moved to a ranchette off the power grid on 6 acres just outside the small mountain town of Tehachapi , California.
Soon enough the lot next door to my house came up for sale and, greedy for solitude and mountain views like this:
I bought an additional 3.5 acres.While contemplating what to do with the new acreage, my mother remembered her dreams (hallucinations?) of becoming a truffiere and our plan was hatched: We would form a dynamic mother-daughter duo and become the Truffle Queens of Tehachapi.
With the decision made and the land in hand, we of course turned to the internet for all our truffle growing needs. That's where we found Dr. Charles Lefevre at New World Truffieres who had no problem convincing us that two brown thumbs should most certainly invest thousands of dollars in a truffle farm. We promptly ordered 600 trees infused with the French black truffle fungus spore.
Now it's January and truffle planting season is upon us. Of course, the one trait common to this mother-daughter duo is procrastination. Just as soon as we return from the Oregon Truffle Festival this weekend, where we intend to learn everything we need to know about growing truffles (and taste our first truffles), we'll get started on the farming aspect. Really, we mean it!
In the meantime, my pig Hogitha is on guard, watching over the future truffiere:
