6 Amazing Things to Know Ahead of the 2021 Oregon Truffle Festival
Don’t miss the upcoming annual Oregon Truffle Festival! The truffle is one of the culinary world’s preeminent delicacies. This type of mushroom grows in a symbiotic association with tree roots and is the “fruit” of such fungi. And thanks to a unique confluence of climate factors, Oregon is one of the few places in the world that produces world-class truffles — four, in fact, of a kind that otherwise can be found only in Europe.
As a result, a growing truffle industry has sprouted — no pun intended — in Oregon, and that industry, along with those who hunt truffles, as well as buy, sell, prepare and study them — is spotlighted each year at the Oregon Truffle Festival. Normally there are two well-attended events each year — one in McMinnville, Oregon, close to our Willamette Valley Bed and Breakfast, and at our on-site Willamette Valley Winery.Read More
