{"id":285,"date":"2006-08-04T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=285"},"modified":"2006-08-04T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T07:41:06","slug":"truffles-coming-out-of-the-ground-in-aussie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/truffles-coming-out-of-the-ground-in-aussie\/","title":{"rendered":"Truffles coming out of the ground in Aussie"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>ooks like it’s turning out to be a good truffle season in Australia. Tim Terry<\/a> has announced<\/a> his first shipment of truffles to France, and Perigord Truffles Of Tasmania<\/a> (PTT) are about to ship to Japan<\/a>. Meanwhile, a New South Wales grower tells me that she’s harvesting a kilo a week from five year old trees.<\/p>\n

Tim’s waxing lyrical about his harvest. In an item on the ABC’s The World Today<\/em> he says:<\/p>\n

“It’s the beginning of a coming of age, if you like. We’ve gone from producing a truffle, now to producing enough to put a small trial shipment into Europe, and now what we want to do is get some more feedback from them, saying we want 500 kilos a week. And that’s the sort of feedback that we are getting. They want a lot of truffles and we can’t supply them at the moment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s clearly a happy man:<\/p>\n

“Here we are in the foot of the Great Western Tiers, there’s a bit of snow on top of the mountains today, Spring, the birds are happening, truffles coming out of the ground. It’s just a magnificent place and great to be alive, isn’t it?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As they say down here, good on ya, mate. Transcript here<\/a>. Podcast available, but you may have to dig in the archive (originally broadcast August 3rd).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like it’s turning out to be a good truffle season in Australia. Tim Terry has announced his first shipment of truffles to France, and Perigord Truffles Of Tasmania (PTT) are about to ship to Japan. Meanwhile, a New South Wales grower tells me that she’s harvesting a kilo a week from five year old … Continue reading Truffles coming out of the ground in Aussie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13,77,80,84],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truffles-farm","tag-australia","tag-tasmania","tag-tim-terry","tag-truffles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}