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.

Black Truffle

March 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

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Webinar Overview:

  • 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.

Speaker

Photo of Julie Stopforth

Julie Stopforth

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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