CROP OPTION: Truffles could offer a new and potentially lucrative choice to WNC farmers wishing to diversify their crops. Truffles can fetch anywhere from $800 to $2,000 per pound. Pictured here is ...

After 12 long years of cultivating his garden, Prince Philip has finally done it: grown truffles in his own backyard. OK, not in his backyard, but at the queen’s Sandringham royal estate in Norfolk.

Each year, farms around the world successfully cultivate tens of tons of truffles, the famously elusive and expensive fungi known for its intoxicating aromatics. In America, truffle orchards have been ...

Many black truffle types can be proliferated by artificial means on spore-impregnated roots in tree plantations. These days they are grown not only in France but also in Italy, the United States, ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Leo, a two-year-old Lagotto Romagnolo truffle dog, suddenly paws at the base of a hazelnut tree. “He’s got something,” says an excited Brian Malone, 39, orchard manager at Jackson ...

The white truffle growing in the woods of Alba, Piedmont, Italy is the rarest and most expensive truffle in the world. This truffle is bigger, more fragrant and flavorful than other types, with a hint ...