Dr Paul Thomas (our managing director) has appeared on several TV programmes, radio shows and in many written articles. Specific areas of expertise include entrepreneurship and the biology, cultivation, hunting and cooking methods of the wide range of truffle species.
Dr Thomas also has many years of expertise in collecting and cooking a vast range of unusual edible fungi. These range from those the size and shape of footballs to the glow-in-the-dark and unusually flavoured, including aniseed and apricots.
If you would like an interview or require an expert/presenter for features and articles then please contact Dr Thomas – Paul@PlantationSystems.com
- Whilst northern hemisphere truffle hunters are busying themselves in the summer truffle season, July is harvesting time for the Perigord truffle (Tuber melanosporum) in the southern hemisphere.
This year the truffle-
We have just finished the yearly analysis of the root system of our winter truffle (Tuber melanosporum) plantation in Devon, UK.
The results were excellent, with 80% of the 3-5cm root samples showing a thriving truffle fungus.The results are extremely encouraging. Whilst most of the UK has a suitable climate for the summer truffle, it has previously been thought that the UK climate is unsuitable for the winter truffle. These early indications
suggest that it may be possible to grow this species outside of its natural habitats.- This is another news story
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