We Expanded Our Research and Demonstration Truffle Orchards!

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truffle beds prepared for planting filbert trees
10/27/2022 – Look for more recent updates about how this orchard has progressed! We harvested truffles from our first orchard in 2017 and got good yields for several years, but now we have experienced two seasons with no truffles. We are trying some rather drastic new practices to see if they boost production. (PS, other growers in Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky had good yields in the 2021-2022 season)
5/17/2013 – On Wednesday, we expanded our Black Perigord truffle research/demonstration area by planting over 70 inoculated filbert trees. These trees were generously donated by Garland Truffles. The new orchard is located right next to our existing orchard at the Mountain Research Station in Waynesville, NC. As you can see from the pictures, this is a beautiful location for our orchards!
rows of newly planted filbert trees

We continue to use the truffle orchard establishment method developed by Franklin Garland. This involves planting through black polypropylene landscape fabric with drip-irrigation.

rows covered with black landscape cloth and with drip irrigation

These are special filbert trees because they are supposed to be immune to Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB). EFB is a big problem for truffle growers. It can seriously damage or kill a tree.

newly planted rows

It will be five years or so before these trees start producing truffles. In the intervening years, we have to work to raise the soil pH through annual applications of lime, keep the orchard weeded and watered, prune the trees, and monitor for diseases and insects. Unlike our other orchard, hopefully we won’t be spraying for EFB!

pruning the filbert trees in the established truffle orchard
We pruned our established orchard in February.
established truffle orchard in background
Our established truffle orchard is visible in the background here, just behind the new planting area. The trees were planted in the spring of 2010.
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