If your up on truffle cultivation I'm sure you've heard that Tom Michaels recently harvested his first successful crop of Perigords in the small town of Chuckey, Tennessee. In fact, they are so good he's sold them to restaurants in Manhattan. Here is the link to a nice article on Tennessee Truffles in none other than the New York Times.
The gist of it is that he has about 2,500 hazelnut trees he planted in 2000. So it took seven years. He's getting $50 an ounce for them (that equals $800 a pound).
His success was such big news it even made the papers in the UK - where they are also trying to cultivate the famous fungus and give France a run for its truffle money.
And here is another good link to an article on Mr. Michaels and his success from the Knoxville News Sentinel website. It even has a picture of his hazelnut orchard so you can see what our orchard might look like in seven years!
Finally, here's a link to an inspiring article in the Vancouver Sun about cultivating the spores in British Columbia.
I'm still looking for Mr. Michaels' website to link to and will post it as soon as I find it. In the meantime, I've got some irrigation to install!!!
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