The main building of Le Occare farmhouse is encircled by a wooden area about 3.8 Ha wide, implanted in three different occasions, and that is now 4, 16 and 21 year-old.
Searching for truffles
An ancient Farmhouse in the countryside of Ferrara
The main building of Le Occare farmhouse is encircled by a wooden area about 3.8 Ha wide, implanted in three different occasions, and that is now 4, 16 and 21 year-old.
The trees were chosen between these
species: oak , bay oak, hazel, pine, hornbeam, willow, white poplar ,
privet, cornel, elder, hawthorn and eglantine. We realized three
different implants of mycorrhized trees with the following truffle
species: Tuber Melanosporum
(black truffle), Tuber Magnatum Pico (white truffle) and Tuber Borchii
Vittadini (Albidum white truffle).
in this area there was a natural production of white truffles in the
past, before deforestation caused a great reduction of truffles
reproduction. The new wooden area not only has an interesting impact on
landscape and local echosystem, but it's also the breading place of a
lot of wild birds.
Now Tuber Borchii Vittadini begins to grow and we hope that in the
future we will find Tuber Magnatum Pico (until now only a few exemplars
found) and Tuber melanosporum.
The truffles match very well with the recipes of the restaurant.
