From the surface, there’s not much going on in the orchard at Burwell Farms in rural North Carolina: loblolly pines grow in perfect, orderly rows, brown trunks and green needles in a hypnotizing grid ...

Truffles are the culinary equivalent of a diamond. Vertiginously expensive, out of reach for many, desired by most, frequently imitated (generally to shrieks of derision)—symbols of so much more than ...

Oregon’s Willamette Valley has the good fortune to be one of the few places in the world where native truffles grow in abundance. On top of that, a new industry of cultivated truffles, grown from ...

Flora Todesco and Claude Murat are the pair behind WeTruf, a company formed expressly to deploy scientific know-how on the cultivation of truffles. They met working in a lab; Flora is CEO, while Murat ...

Some Idaho farmers are experimenting with a new, potentially lucrative crop: truffles. The Capital Press reports that there’s no clear procedure for growing truffles, which can sell for between $500 ...