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And two that are decorative.” Her primary truffle dog, Nadine, gets loose while we’re chatting on the phone and escapes through a gate, causing momentary panic.. Once all five dogs have been wrangled, Taylor gives me a scientific history lesson in inoculating trees to create truffles.Her parents started inoculating in 2007 but the company only found their first truffle in 2018.

It takes a lot of patience.“The fungus that produces the truffle lives in the roots of the tree.When the trees are really young, you introduce the fungus to their roots, and you hope they develop a symbiotic relationship," she explains.. Olivia Taylor.

You can dip the baby tree roots into a fungus milkshake.. — Olivia Taylor."You can dip the baby tree roots into a fungus milkshake.

Inside each truffle are spores and when you expose the roots to that genetic material, it will germinate.

After checking on the growth under a microscope in a year and a half, and then plant the tree, in five to six years, it should produce truffles.”.just $25 at Amazon.

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