Symbiotic Success: How Truffle Hunters and Cultivators are Enhancing Each Other’s Practices

Real Truffle Hunters’ Julie Stopforth will present a talk on the relationship between truffle hunters and truffle growers.

March 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Share stories and insights from a truffle hunter turned truffle grower, with an
overview of the evolving dynamics between traditional truffle hunter and modern
cultivator.
Discuss challenges on both sides and how collaboration and shared knowledge
helps to address them. Highlight observations from native environments that can
help inform and refine truffle farming practices.
Recreating a wild truffle orchard: An experiment.
Review the cultivation of other truffle species including Tuber brumale and the
‘Alba’ truffle Tuber magnatum.
Bonus: A Saint Patrick’s Day Celebration of Truffles with an all-Irish dish.

Full time truffle hunter, truffle dog trainer, and experimental truffle grower.

For the past 18 years, Julie Stopforth has been a truffle hunter, working with my family across the renowned truffle regions of southern Europe.

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