June is the season for truffle digging again. After a Long Weekend in the suburbs of Melbourne, we booked a $165 Package on our website, including Hunting ➕ Pizza, and asked who could resist the temptation of a black truffle pizza.

Rich black truffle flavor➕ full of duck ➕ scorched crispy potatoes, I have ever eaten rich filling, the crust is thin and resilient, really Mrs. Mrs. Delicious......

Generally, the traditional truffle season is in winter, the northern hemisphere is at the end of the year, the southern hemisphere is in the middle of the year, at the end of the year, some restaurants provide Italian white truffles, which is flown to Australia, rarely heard of summer truffles, recently learned that Australia also produces summer truffles, really gained new knowledge, as a food blogger, can't wait to experience it.

🔗Red Hill Truffle

📍235 Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill VIC 3937 Australia

🔻 Before digging truffles

Truffles in Australia start to mature in May, enter the harvest season in June to July, and start to release spores again in August. Jenny once found truffles that have yet to mature, she will plant a blue flag, wait for a while to check again, we have found many because they are not mature enough, so we harvested a few, but it is still full of experience, especially after finding truffles. To get down on the ground and smell the truffle close to the dirt feels like a kind of worship to the nature that has blessed this delicacy.

When we arrived at our destination, the staff at the gate guided us to the park, and we walked to the lounge where the farmer offered us tea and coffee while we drank and listened to them introduce the farm, the breed of black truffle and the working dog of the day.
It is recommended to wear a pair of dirty and comfortable shoes, provided with shoe covers, before entering the truffle digging area, shoes need to be disinfected.

🔻 truffle digging

Maddie is so good, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ️ sniffed for a moment, then stopped and pawed twice to signal to the owner that there were truffles underneath. The staff will judge whether the truffle is ripe or not, and when it is, let us try to dig it ourselves...

They provide MATS, so you don't have to worry about getting your pants dirty when you dig up the truffles.

🔻 After digging the truffles

Use the brush to wash them clean, to get rid of the soil, the smell is more intense, good like ah ️ Then we went to the pizza place, near the truffle dig, about a 3 minute drive.

After digging truffles, the farm prepares cider, the dug truffles are washed and dried, they can be stored, the big truffles weigh 500-600 grams, which can be sold for thousands of dollars in the market, and the small truffles are dug out, and they are used in the noon pizza, the unique smell of truffles is more fragrant on the hot pizza. It was lovely to get together at the cabin and eat pizza.

In addition to sprinkling truffles directly on food, they are also made into many ingredients and sauces. Truffle Farm has a variety of truffle salts, truffle butter, truffle honey and mayonnaise. After experiencing truffle hunting, you can also choose several to take home.