It can often take a while for the dog to make the transition from finding the truffles you have buried to finding truffles in the wild. Following these tips will help you speed up the process.
Teach your dog how to hunt truffles. This tried and tested method is cheap and easy. Nearly all dogs can be trained to find truffles and they love it. Part 2 in a series of three.
A lot has been written about the darker aspects of truffle hunting in the last few years. Stories about dog-poisoning, GBH and arson attacks make for interesting reading at the best of times. All the more so when the incidents offer an insight into a very secretive circle that few have access to. Thankfully these […]
Where can you hunt for white truffles? Truffle ecosystems are easy to describe. Precise locations are rarely given and for good reason.
An inside look at the trade secrets of the truffle industry.
Read this if you don’t have a truffle dog and are thinking about hunting for truffles using a rake.
Every year a handful of remarkable white truffles are found that cause a lot of fuss. Most truffle hunters will feel very lucky to find a truffle weighing over 200 grams, here we are talking about truffles around the kilo mark. These are the real prizes in the world of truffles, where the big money […]
For a good few years now I’ve been trying to get the hunters to take pictures of the truffles as they find them. They are usually too preoccupied with the job of getting the truffles out of the ground to bother photographing the event. I really hope that this post will encourage them to keep […]
Often when I tell people that we hunt for truffles, their first question is about how we train the pigs. It seems that the use of pigs in truffle hunting is very firmly ensconced in the collective consciousness. In reality though, the vast majority of tartufai nowadays prefer to hunt with dogs. Truffling pigs were […]
One of the most interesting books I have read this summer was the investigative journalist Ryan Jacobs‘ expose on the truffle industry “The Truffle Underground.“ Our cousin Alberto had heard about the book and as it is not available in Italian, ordered it for me so that I could read it and translate the gist […]