Black Truffle
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A&L Western Laboratories

A & L Western Agricultural Laboratories offers many consulting services. These services include field consultations and report interpretations.

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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
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Alpine Truffle

Alpine Truffle, LLC is a family company, proficient in truffle cultivation to improve truffle industry– locally, nationally, and globally.

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Fran Angerer

Artistic Truffle Farmer, Local Defacto Truffle Meister

Chair for Marketing & Education Task Force
NATGA Member since 2019

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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.…

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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.…

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Burwell Farms

We specialize in the cultivation of the exquisite Bianchetto Truffle

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Fabrice Caporal

Co-Founder

Member since 2019, Digital Media Task Force lead.

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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.

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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. 

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Mark Coleman

Forestry Faculty

TRAPI project director. Forestry Faculty at University of Idaho for the past thirteen years.

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Stephen Cook

Professor, Department Head

Department head at University of Idaho department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology

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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.

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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.

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Richard Franks

Chief Science Officer

Chief Science Officer with Burwell Farms

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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.

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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.…

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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.

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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.…

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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.

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Robert Heinse

Associate Professor

Dr. Heinse’s interests revolve around water in the soil environment and the characterization using geophysical methods.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.…

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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.

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Lake View Pecans

Growers of pecans, pecan trees, pecan truffles and inoculated seedlings.

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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.

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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.

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Lois Martin

KPA-CTP Truffle Dog Company Team Member: Instructor, Public Relations Ambassador Owner/ Operator at Atomic Dog Training

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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.

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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.

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MICOLOGIA FORESTAL & APLICADA

We a are a biotechnology company that researches, develops and markets technologies and products for the cultivation of truffles.

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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.

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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.…

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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.

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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.

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Scott Onetto

Farm Advisor

Scott Oneto has been a farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension for the past 22 years.

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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. …

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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.

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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.

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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.…

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The Truffle Hunters

Professional team that hunt and successfully harvest orchard planted truffles as well as wild, native truffles since 2010.

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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.

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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.

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Rytas Vilgaly

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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.…