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.
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