Breaking New Ground 04

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searching for truffles Garland has also started to other farmers to give up their tractors and grow the expensive instead. His latest is selling specially treated trees for truffle-growing to interested farmers. And they are getting from all over North Carolina. “Seems lots of want to get into the truffle-growing business,” Garland says. “And I know why. It’s all about money. The they have been in the last years was $500 a pound. And they have got up to $1,600 and in some $2,000 a pound."

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In 1999 Charles Bradley $5,000 to plant 500 of Garland’s hazelnut trees. Some quick tells you why he wanted to take the . A good year could produce 100 of truffles an acre. He has got two acres of trees. Let’s he gets $1,000 a pound. That would $200,000 for that good year. Up to now only hazelnuts (grow) on the of these inoculated trees. But Charles Bradley and Franklin Garland are that (their / there) will soon be truffles to . And then Ginger will start sniffing like the pigs in France to do.