Hound found: on the hunt for truffles in British Columbia

Hound found: on the hunt for truffles in British Columbia

Man with dog, searching for truffles in the ground

Truffle Dog Team: John Kelly with Macchi

July 6, 2022

Dr. Shannon Berch, adjunct professor with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and an associate member in Botany at the University of British Columbia, comments on the science of truffle cultivation. Berch leads the Truffle Establishment in British Columbia, a project at the UBC Farm which focuses on farming Mediterranean black winter truffles in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with English oak trees.

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