A&L Western Laboratories
A & L Western Agricultural Laboratories offers many consulting services. These services include field consultations and report interpretations.
Brian Allen
Brian Allen is a research specialist at the University of California Cooperative Extension office in Jackson, CA. He is developing a truffle genetic and microscopy testing service lab to meet industry demand with guidance from researchers and truffle growers.
Webinars and Presentations
https://trufflegrowers.com/resources/webinars/grower-survey-update/
Alpine Truffle
Alpine Truffle, LLC is a family company, proficient in truffle cultivation to improve truffle industry– locally, nationally, and globally.
Fran Angerer
Artistic Truffle Farmer, Local Defacto Truffle Meister
Chair for Marketing & Education Task Force
NATGA Member since 2019
Fran Angerer
Artistic Truffle Farmer
We are a family owned company in Sonoma County California that currently have producing orchards
Shannon Berch
President
Shannon Berch retired in 2019 from and is now an Emerita Research Scientist with the British Columbia Ministry of Environment; she is also an adjunct professor with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and an associate member in Botany at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryce Kendrick kindled her interest in mycology during an undergraduate course he taught at the University of Waterloo.…
Gregory Bonito
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Mycology, plant-fungal interactions, truffle ecology, & evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis in fungi.
Prof. Bonito studies ecology & evolution of plant-fungal-bacterial associations, with a particular interest in below ground root associated fungi including truffles, mushrooms & molds. These organisms provide important links between plants & soils & are functionally important to plant health & nutrition, nutrient cycles, & energy flows.…
Brijette Buquiran
Truffle hunter in training, Gio, and I are embarking on our second hunting season this fall/winter (2024). We’ve had success finding T. brumale and are training on pecan and perigord truffles. Located in Philadelphia and open to traveling for training opportunities, connecting with other hunters/growers, wild hunts, and orchard surveys.
Burwell Farms
We specialize in the cultivation of the exquisite Bianchetto Truffle
Fabrice Caporal
Co-Founder
Member since 2019, Digital Media Task Force lead.
Linnet Cartwright
Owner
Linnet first became interested in truffle cultivation while living in Western Australia in the late 90’s during her time at the West Australian Department of Agriculture doing research in the area.
Simon Cartwright
Owner
In 2007 Simon along with Linnet searched for a property and began preparing it for the first of four plantings, which occurred in 2009. On Feb 22, 2014, while planning their last tree, they found their first Perigord truffle on a five-year-old tree.
Mark Coleman
Forestry Faculty
TRAPI project director. Forestry Faculty at University of Idaho for the past thirteen years.
Stephen Cook
Professor, Department Head
Department head at University of Idaho department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology
Jeannine Davis
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
Jeanine Davis is an extension specialist at North Carolina State University, where she plays a crucial role in supporting truffle growers.
Felco
FELCO’s aim has always been, and always will be, to offer innovative and durable solutions to commercial pruning and cutting markets. Even though our business strategy is very much oriented towards the professional market, domestic users are not left out: those who enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done must also have access to the best cutting and pruning tools.
Christine Fischer
Forest Ecologist
Christine Fischer is a forest ecologist with a special focus on mycorrhizal fungi. During the past 25 years she has worked with a team of researchers on the ecology and cultivation of Black Truffles in Spain at the Forest Science Center of Catalonia (CTFC), where she led a program for the certification of truffle seedlings. She teaches workshops on microscopic and molecular techniques for the study of ectomycorrhizal fungi, and has participated in national and international projects and meetings, collaborating on more than 50 scientific and educational publications.
Richard Franks
Chief Science Officer
Chief Science Officer with Burwell Farms
Garland Truffles, Inc.
Supplier of black Périgord and Burgundy truffle inoculated trees. We keep a substantial inventory. Trees are available year round. We also conduct truffle cultivation workshops.
Susi Gott Séguret
author, chef, fiddler, forager
Susi Gott Séguret, author, chef, fiddler, forager, hails from Madison County, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A Certified Culinary Professional and Certified Specialist of Wine, with a diploma in Gastronomy and Taste from the Cordon Bleu and the Université de Reims, Séguret is the founder and Director of the Seasonal School of Culinary Arts, which convenes four times a year in Asheville, Ithaca, Sonoma, and Paris, and also orchestrates a series of ultra-elegant wine dinners known as the Asheville Wine Experience; the gustatory extravaganza, the Asheville Truffle Experience; and a series of foraging-cooking-dining events aptly called the Appalachian Culinary Experience.…
Alexis Guerin Laguette
Scientist
Dr Alexis Guerin-Laguette has been a mycorrhiza scientist at The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited since January 2004. His global work with edible mycorrhizal fungi & fungi cultivation is widely recognized. In New Zealand, he shares his knowledge & expertise with all players in this industry. He has published over 20 research papers on the topic.
Gonzalo Guevara Guerrero
Gonzalo Guevara Guerrero, was born in Monterrey, Mexico, began his interest in higher fungi when he was an undergraduate biology student at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and his thesis was on Taxonomy and Systematics of edible mycorrhizal fungi from the forests of the northeastern region of Mexico, being published in 1985. He continued his postgraduate studies and obtained his PhD degree (UANL) with the thesis on molecular taxonomic studies in the species of the genus Cantharellus of México.…
Barbara Hawkins
Proffesor
We are particularly interested in co-adaptation of conifers and their mycorrhizal partners, and in variation among tree populations in stress tolerance. Our work ranges from lab experiments measuring nutrient uptake with microelectrodes, to field work assessing nutrient stoichiometry of tree foliage, fungi and soil.
Robert Heinse
Associate Professor
Dr. Heinse’s interests revolve around water in the soil environment and the characterization using geophysical methods.
Infaco USA
HAND-HELD POWER TOOL MANUFACTURER FOR OVER 35 YEARS
After 30 years of success in Europe, Asia, and Australia the growing demand in the United States prompted Infaco to open their only subsidiary in Livermore, CA. Infaco USA is now ready to serve you. After over 6 years of research, tests and fine-tuning, INFACO is proud to present its latest model of pruning shears with more cutting power Lighter, more compact easier to handle than previous generations.
Rowan Jacobsen
Author
Rowan Jacobsen is the award-winning author of Truffle Hound: On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
Stephanie Jarvis
Mycologist, Owner
In 2010 Stephanie Jarvis began her consultation company, Pacific Truffle Growers (PTG) due to multiple requests to rehabilitate unproductive truffle orchards. She manages truffle orchards throughout Northern California and currently assists clients in Oregon, Washington and most recently – North Carolina.
Ben Kable
Veterinarian and truffle hunter/grower
Dr. Ben Kable grew up in Westminster, MD and attended Loyola High School in Towson. He attended Virginia Tech for his undergraduate education before moving to the Caribbean to attend the American University of Antigua. After two years, Dr. Kable transferred to Virginia Tech to complete his final two years of veterinary school at VMRCVM.…
Gavin Kernaghan
ProfessorBSc, MSc (UBC)
PhD (U Alberta)
Most of Dr. Gavin Kernaghan’s research focuses on the ecology of fungi and its relationship with plants; evolutionarily they have been closely tied together as a typical pairing and are often studied in tandem.
Lake View Pecans
Growers of pecans, pecan trees, pecan truffles and inoculated seedlings.
Katie Learn
Research Associate
Katie Learn is the research associate at the NC Alternative Crops and Organics program in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University
Ben Lemmond
Ph.D. student
Ph.D. student at the University of Florida working on several projects related to the ecology and systematics of ascomycete truffle fungi.
Caroline Lindstedt
With her trained truffle dogs she performs truffle orchard surveys in the Pacific Northwest. She also offers harvesting and sales of Oregon native truffles, Tuber oregonense, Tuber gibbosum, Leucangium carthusianum and Kalapuya brunnea.
Lois Martin
KPA-CTP Truffle Dog Company Team Member: Instructor, Public Relations Ambassador Owner/ Operator at Atomic Dog Training
Inga Meadows
Extension Plant Pathologist
Inga Meadows is an Extension Plant Pathologist for Vegetables (primarily tomato) & Herbaceous Ornamentals, Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology. She addresses disease issues for commercial vegetables & greenhouse growers by providing recommendations for disease prevention or suppression. Her program conducts research aimed at improving tools for managing disease.
MicoLab
MicoLab is a company based in Spain that provides worldwide services for truffle growers and nurseries in the lines of consultancy, analyses and technical trainings.
MICOLOGIA FORESTAL & APLICADA
We a are a biotechnology company that researches, develops and markets technologies and products for the cultivation of truffles.
Marcos Morcillo
Director
Marcos Morcillo is the founder and director of the Micrologia Forestal and Aplicada research center outside Barcelona.
The MF&A specializes in Truffles and truffles has been the focus of his career since graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1994. In 2007, Marcos and his partners established their own truffle orchard, of more than 4.000 trees, inoculated with Tuber melanosporum and Tuber borchii. The research center offers excellent courses on all aspects of growing truffles.
Claude Murat
Research Engineer
Dr. Murat is currently research engineer at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Nancy. Obtained a joint supervision PhD at the University of Nancy (France) and at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2004 defending a thesis on the truffle genetic diversity. He then spent four years at the University of Turin (2004-2008) with a post-doctoral fellowship working at a project focused on truffle phylogeny, evolution and barcoding.…
New World Truffieres
Supplying inoculated seedlings and professional assistance to North American truffle farmers. Please feel free to contact New World Truffieres or Dr. Lefevre for information on truffle cultivation in your area or to purchase inoculated trees.
Staci O’Toole
Truffle Huntress
NATGA Research Task Force Lead. Staci’s love for foraging began over 25 years ago while studying to become a Biological Sciences Major at The Ohio State University. After a successful career as an Insurance Executive she was looking to return to her roots and passions of Animals, Food & Wine. Unbeknownst to her at the time, her journey as a Truffle Farmer, which began nearly a decade ago, was due to the love of a dog.
Scott Onetto
Farm Advisor
Scott Oneto has been a farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension for the past 22 years.
Karen Passafaro
President
My husband Jim and I planted a truffle orchard in 2014 on property that had been in the family for generations. We have about 600 trees, (hazelnuts and English Oaks; Tuber Melanosporum and Tuber Aestivum) and have not yet harvested truffles from our orchards, although we enjoy hunting for truffles with our Lagotto Romagnolo, Alba.
In 2019 I joined NATGA Board of Directors as Member at Large with the goal of recruiting truffle growers in the Western US and developing a truly national truffle growers’ organization to strengthen our growing industry. …
Jay W. Pscheidt
Ph.D, Professor
Jay W. Pscheidt is a professor at Oregon State University as an Extension Plant Pathology Specialist.
Michael Riggan
Elora and Michael hunt primarily in North Carolina and Virginia but have gone as far as Texas and upstate New York. Elora is proficient in hunting perigord, bianchetto, pecan truffles, Appalachian truffles, burgundy truffles, and has trained on Oregon black and white truffles.
Dwayne Tate
Regional Agronomist
Dwayne has been an Agronomist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture for last 10 years and prior that has worked with the North Carolina University Soil Science Department for 25 years.
Olivia Taylor
Past President & Secretary
Olivia Taylor has over 12 years experience in research, grower, and nursery operator. She holds degrees in Biology & a Master’s degree in Environmental Science & Policy. Her research examined the relationship bettween introduced Tuber melanosporum & common Mid-Atlantic ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Olivia has participated in multiple overseas courses including truffle dog training in France, quantitative & qualitative truffle analysis in Spain, & a full truffle season in Manjimup, Australia.…
The Truffle Hunters
Professional team that hunt and successfully harvest orchard planted truffles as well as wild, native truffles since 2010.
Truffle Dog Company
Truffle Dog Company is a global source for online truffle dog training, native truffle sales, harvesting services for orchards, consultation services and in person training for professional and recreational truffle dog teams.
Truffle-Typing
Truffle-Typing is a product and service being developed for the determination of mating type in a variety of truffle species. The first offering is an assay for the determination of mating type in Tuber canaliculatum. These developments are undertaken by Democratek, a small research and development outfit, bringing simple technological solutions to complex problems.
Aziz Turkoglu
Affiliate Professor
Aziz Turkoglu is a mycology professor, currently Affiliate Professor at University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. He operates Alpine Truffle, LLC as a truffle specialist.
Davis M Upchurch
PhD Candidate
Davis M. Upchurch is a Ph.D. candidate in Plant Breeding at Cornell University
Petra Vasilik
RVT, VTS (IM-Cardiology), CCMT, CSCC
Petra, owner, handler and trainer of her two truffle dogs, travels within a 3-4 hour radius of Cary, NC. Both of her dogs (see bio) are successful and reliable at locating Perigord (T.melanosporum), black summer truffle (T.aestivum), and the indigenous pecan truffle (T.lyonii) and Blue Ridge truffle (I.gigantea). Petra’s main goal is for her dogs to always have fun and have a successful hunt.
Rytas Vilgaly
Dr
Rytas Vilgaly’s lab group at Duke University uses molecular approaches to study natural history of fungi. He was one of the first to apply PCR-based methods for studying fungal systematics and was one of the lead investigators associated with the Fungal Tree of Life project which elucidated the evolutionary history of the Kingdom Fungi. Current research uses molecular approaches to study fungal diversity and function in forest environments.…