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That was the year, that was
I’ve just sent our final truffle newsletter for the year. Here’s what I had to say… It’s been an amazing year for us, with truffles produced in every month from January to November, the production of...
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First footing
I wasn’t expecting the 2014 truffle season to start on the first of January, but it did. We had some friends round for our traditional New Year’s Day lunch (ham with Cumberland sauce), and one or two...
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2014 truffle season underway
This is our first truffle newsletter for the 2014 season. It was sent to subscribers a couple of weeks ago. If you’d link to sign up for future missives, use the form in the right sidebar. Welcome to...
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Saffron Milk Caps make a comeback
It’s been a long time — June 2005, in fact — since we’ve had saffron milk cap mushrooms off our little trial patch of Pinus radiata infected with the gourmet fungus, but this year’s wet autumn has...
View ArticleRosie on the radio (with truffles and nuts)
A couple of weeks ago, RNZ National’s Country Life programme – in the shape of reporter Cosmo Kentish-Barnes – called in at the Hills and accompanied Rosie on a truffle hunt. I did far too much...
View ArticleEarly morning truffles
It was 7-20 on a cold Saturday morning, and I’d barely had time to internalise a cup of strong tea before Radio Live’s The Home & Garden Show was on the phone to talk to me about truffles. You can...
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2014 truffle harvest newsletter #2
Welcome – somewhat later than planned – to the second Limestone Hills truffle update for 2014. A lot’s been happening. We’ve been deluged with rain – the wettest autumn since we moved to Waipara 17...
View ArticleLooking round the back garden…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHLOMUrXwQ&w=474] The view from our cliff top yesterday, taken as a test of a new iPhone app from Instagram called Hyperlapse. The app smoothes hand-held...
View ArticleChez Bruno: the restaurant that uses more truffle than any other in the world
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPYG5BRICQ&w=474] I’ve never (yet) been to Chez Bruno in Lorgues, arguably the most famous truffle restaurant in the world, though I got very close when I...
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Inside the world’s most productive truffiere
A couple of weeks ago, in pursuit of knowledge to be inserted into my next book on truffles, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Truffle & Wine Company‘s truffiere in Manjimup, Western...
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