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Cultivating Community With the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program

11/10/2025 - Our latest newsletter is out and it is full of beautiful photos and stories of what our team has been up to lately. Read about our two interns, the juhua (菊花) (Chrysanthemum morifolium)…

Young woman holding a handful of truffles recently harvested from a truffle orchard in North Carolina

Truffles, Forest Farming, Chinese Herbs, and More!

2/18/2025 - The NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program Team is very busy right now harvesting truffles, building new shade structures, planting woodland botanicals, prepping for the upcoming…

freshly harvested black perigord truffle in hand

2023 Black Perigord Truffle Field Day

12/9/2022 - We welcome you to attend our 2023 Truffle Field Day!This event will take place Friday, January 20th, 2023 at our research truffle orchard at the Mountain Research Station in Waynesville,…

two people and a dog hunting for truffles in a truffle orchard

Help Create Truffle Orchard Fertility Guidelines for NC Growers!

4/27/2021 - To create good fertility recommendations for North Carolina truffle growers, we need more data!!! So, in cooperation with the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services…

woman digging soil from beneath a filbert tree

Our Truffle Paper Is Published!

8/20/20 - Reviewed 8/28/2024 It has been decades in coming because finding funding to conduct research on growing truffles in North Carolina was not an easy task. But we did it and here's the end…

woman taking truffle from soil

We Are Harvesting Lots of Black Perigord Truffles at NCSU!

1/31/2020 - Skepticism was high in 2010 when we planted our first filbert orchard with young trees inoculated with the Black Perigord truffle. There had been many failed truffle orchards at that time…

Person walking through leafless shrubs while a harnessed dog sniffs the grass.

Learn How to Grow Truffles, and Eat Them, Too

11/16/2023 - This particular event is over, but the Asheville Truffle Experience still takes place most years. So read the article and click on the link below to see if there will be another one…

Hunting for truffles with a truffle dog

We Produced Our First Black Périgord Truffles!

Original post: 11/22/2017. Updated on 1/10/2023: I am THRILLED to report that on November 20, 2017 we found our first Black Périgord truffles in our research orchards. This has been a very long time…

small tractor preparing the soil for the truffle bed

What Did Our First Truffle Orchard Look Like in 2011?

11/7/2022 - This article documents some of the earliest years of our truffle research. We produced truffles in this first orchard for three years, but have not found much for the past two years. Look…

young truffle orchard

The Day We Planted Our Truffle Orchard

We had a great crew from the research station to plant the trees in record time. Thanks, guys! 9/20/2022 - Look for all the updates on our truffle orchards, our research, and what's happening with…