North Carolina Farmers Excited about Truffle Mushrooms
May 27th, 2008
With global warming severely dampening the harvesting of prized truffle mushrooms in Europe, where growing used to produce about a thousand tons of the delicacy in the early part of last century to about fifty tons a year currently, North Carolina farmers stand to make up some of that difference and some money to boot.
North Carolina’s truffle industry is still small, many people think it will become a booming business for the state. There are more than sixty farms that grow truffles statewide and even seedling truffles go for about twenty-five dollars each.
