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A group of people standing around a table full of pots of media, cutting boards, knives, and roots of various native woodland botanicals. This was a workshop to teach propagation.

Our Latest Newsletter-Full of Agroforestry Events and Truffle News

2/21/2026 - Our latest program newsletter is FULL of opportunities to attend workshops, conferences, and webinars. There is also information on two farmer grant programs, and our truffle discovery.…

Group of people sitting on the ground pruning and training hops on a research station.

Check Out These Hands-on Learning Opportunities in North Carolina!

6/10/2025 - We are offering, or closely engaged with, a large number of hands-on educational events this season. These include agroforestry farm tours, volunteer days in the hops, research station…

Chinese medicinal herbs growing on a farm in western NC

Autumn Update on the NC Alternative Crops & Organics Program!

10/12/2023 - Our western North Carolina based research and extension program has been very busy this summer with projects on hops, hemp, traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, native woodland…

Extension Homegrown video on hops

New Videos on Truffles and Hops!

Link to the NC State Extension Homegrown article and video on hops12/10/2021 The NC State Extension Homegrown video team recently created a video and article on our hops breeding program. It was…

floral hemp in the field

Position Closed. HIRING NOW! Hops, Hemp, Ginseng, Heirloom Tomatoes...

8/11/2021 - Update: Love social media! We got a bunch of applications within just a few days. Thanks.8/7/2021 - One of our valued summer employees must suddenly leave our program for another…

cover crops emerging in field

Spring Update for the NC Alternative Crops and Organics Program

5/18/2021 - It is a beautiful spring in western NC and our field research is in full swing once again. The Eastern Broccoli Project, a USDA/SCRI funded project that involves researchers from Maine to…

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…

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…

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Our 2015 Field Research Projects with 2022 Updates!

8/17/2022 - I wrote this post in 2015. Interesting to see what we were doing then and what has continued and not. I made those updated notations below in BLUE.6/12/2015 Developing an East Coast…