As a truffle dog life is pretty good. We (that is me, Viva, and my 4 other Labrador truffle mates live in a beautiful part of the world in the southern forests of Manjimup, Western Australia. Truffle dogs have to work (funny name for something we love to do) for 3-4 mo...

Around Christmas each year I get out into the truffle groves and I start to look for the first of the next seasons truffles. This is what it is all about, the harvesting process is hard graft, but summer, well that’s the skill end of truffle growing. You see, primordia...