Resources for and by the NATAGA community. NATGA neither supports nor endorses any of these resources, specific businesses or individuals. NATGA strive to provide its members with a breadth of knowledge from a variety of resources. Membership, sponsorship or mention in this listing of any nursery, scientist, or vendor does not imply endorsement by NATGA. Any opinions and information shared by our members and sponsors are their own and NATGA doesn’t imply endorsement of such information.
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
We are a family owned company in Sonoma County California that currently have producing orchards
Shannon Berch
Retired research scientist
Shannon Berch retired in 2019 from the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and a founding member of the Truffle Association of British Columbia.
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 (Bri) Buquiran
Located in New Jersey 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
Mark Coleman
Forestry Faculty
TRAPI project director. Fourteen years as Research Scientists with US Forest Service in Wisconsin and South Carolina. Forestry Faculty at University of Idaho for the past thirteen years.
Raúl Deoiz
RSCE Certified Dog Trainer
Founder and manager of Trufdog, a leading specialist in breeding and training exceptional truffle-hunting dogs and host of the Dog Training Workshop at the 2026 NATGA Congress Workshop
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.
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.
Vince Gentille
Co-Founder
Vince Gentile and Camille Dupuis are truffle marketing experts from Seminalia Truffles.
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.
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.
Lake View Pecans
Growers of pecans, pecan trees, pecan truffles and inoculated seedlings.
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 the North Carolina State University 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.
NewTown Truffiere
Margaret and Luca are available to check orchards in the KY/TN area.
Jaime Olaizola
Co-Founder, CEO
A leader in the field of truffle cultivation, where he has applied his extensive scientific knowledge to foster innovation in applied mycology.
Scott Onetto
Farm Advisor
Scott Oneto has been a farm advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension for the past 22 years.
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.
Nikki Roof
Manager
Nikki Roof specializes in integrating truffles into dairy products, particularly cheese, showcasing local agriculture and innovative food products.
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.
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.
Brian Terk
Brian and Fozzie Bear are based in Washington, D.C. From cultivated orchards to wild forests, they are always ready to travel—usually within 8 hours—to put Fozzie’s remarkable nose to work.
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.
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.…
Virginia Truffles
Virginia Truffles is a family-owned and operated truffle farm nestled in the heart of Rixeyville, Virginia.
Virginia Truffles
Virginia Truffles offers a unique Truffle Species Identification Service. Our fully equipped, in-house microbiology lab delivers precise species confirmation through advanced molecular biology techniques.
West Coast Truffle Dogs
West Coast Truffle Dogs is based in central California. We have multiple dogs available to support truffle growers across the western United States. Our dogs have been professionally trained and have successfully found truffles in orchard production. In addition to our pups, we have a collaborative relationship with professional teams available to assist truffieres across the country. …