So Unlikely
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Be among the few to discover BC grown truffles.
Four events, four days…
….Dine on fresh local truffles prepared by top local chefs .
….Follow truffle dogs as they hunt for this elusive treasure.
….Meet and talk with truffle experts.
Events
Saturday, February 10, 2018
| 1pm-4pm | Visit a truffle orchard at UBC Experimental Farm. |
| Watch truffle dog demonstrations | |
| Sample native and cultivated truffles |
Join us at the UBC Farm. Tickets: $50 eventbrite.com
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Sunday, February 11, 2018
| Forays in the field, Langley BC | |
| 11am | Visit a producing Bianchetto truffle orchard (tuber borchii) and participate in a real harvest with truffle dogs |
| 2pm | Join truffle foraging teams Brooke Foochuk with Dexter and John Kelly with Macchi on a truffle foraging expedition in South Langley and taste some truffle hors-d’oeuvres in the field |
Tickets: $100 eventbrite.com
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Monday, February 19, 2018
| Truffle dinner at Burdock and Co. restaurant | |
| This event has been cancelled – |
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Saturday, February 24, 2018 in DUNCAN, BC.
| 12pm-3pm | Truffle cooking class IN DUNCAN, BC at the Cowichan Green Community Hall |
| Chef Robin Jackson and Toivo Heyduck will lead a truffle cooking class and tasting featuring local Vancouver Island cultivated and wild truffles. |
Tickets: $85 eventbrite.com
Blog
In December’s issue of Fungi magazine, British Columbia truffle dogs were celebrated by BC Provincial Soil Scientist Dr. Shannon Berch: Human interest in truffles is based on the very same feature that is so intimately involved with spore dispersal by animals – the heady, pungent odor of a ripe truffle. Mice, squirrels, armadillos, meerkats, deer, bears, baboons and wallabies all seek …
Truffles in BC?
Yeah. Really! Local grown truffles are exceedingly rare and surprisingly diverse. In British Columbia we are both at the edge of truffles and at the beginning of truffles. It’s a combination that makes for something unique that can’t be replicated anywhere else that we know of.
Contact
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