Oakland Truffiere - Gisborne, New Zealand

Oakland Truffière is based in Gisborne, New Zealand with owners Alan & Lynley Hall. When Alan first 400 mixed oak and hazel trees. Truffles are the fruiting body of a ectomycorrihizal fungus, meaning that they infect the roots of host trees. While they have been harvested in the wild for centuries, declining production has led to a truffle cultivation industry through the use of planting young trees infected with the truffle fungus on its roots.