Truffle Hunters:
Truffle hunting services
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. …