Online Truffle Course

Learn truffle hunting from the ground up. Practical, honest, and straight from the forest. In this unique online course, we’ll show you step by step how to successfully train your dog for truffles, identify the best spots, and even search for truffles effectively without a dog.

What makes this course special is the real insights straight from the forest. You’ll join us at a wide variety of truffle locations and see exactly what matters. Different soils, trees, habitats, and situations from every season make the course incredibly tangible and easy to understand. You won’t just get theory—you’ll get the exact examples that make the difference in practice.

This course is for anyone who wants to get started with truffle hunting or deepen their knowledge. Whether you want to discover new truffle spots, learn about more truffle species like the Borchii, or understand truffle hunting without a dog, you’ll get real, well-founded knowledge here. And the course keeps evolving. When we discover new, exciting spots or find especially good examples, we share them directly in the community forum. That way, you’ll always stay close to real-world practice and keep getting fresh insights. This isn’t a static course—it’s a living project that keeps growing with every experience in the forest.

What to expect in the course:

Introduction to the World of Truffle Hunting

It's great to have you here! In dieser ersten Lektion legen wir gemeinsam den Grundstein für ein ganz besonderes Abenteuer: die Trüffelsuche…

What are truffles and how do they grow?

What are truffles? First, it's very important to understand what truffles actually are and how they grow. This knowledge will help you…

Truffle Varieties

The genus Tuber Worldwide, around 180 to 200 species of the genus Tuber have been described. These are known as true truffles.…

The most important host trees for truffles

No Tree, No Truffle Truffles are underground-growing sac fungi from the Tuberaceae family and live in close symbiosis with certain host trees.…

Limestone and Truffle Indicators: Plants That Show You the Way

Calcareous soil as the basis for truffles Truffles prefer to grow in calcareous soils. In truffle orchards, lime—such as shell limestone or…

Truffle hunting without a dog – The fly method

With this method, you can even find truffles without a dog. The truffle fly is one of the most reliable indicators, accurately…

Proper conditioning for your dog

The first step into training together Conditioning marks the beginning of your truffle training together. Your dog will be delighted to work…

First Steps After Conditioning and Understanding Your Dog

Practice truffle found—how does he find wild truffles? When your dog reliably finds the training truffles even after a few days, you…

Finding Fall Truffles and New Spots

Finding and Understanding New Truffle Spots Discovering new truffle spots is crucial and significantly increases your success. It often happens that known…

Finding Summer Truffles

Starting the New Season with Summer Truffles Finally, the new truffle season begins. For many, this marks the start of an exciting…

Finding Winter Truffles

Occurrence and typical locations Even in winter, you can go truffle hunting. Winter truffles appear as early as December, opening up another…

Finding Spring Truffles

Practical experience The spring truffle, Tuber borchii, is an exciting and often underestimated truffle species. It opens up an additional season for…

Cleaning, grading and storing truffles

Quality and Naturalness of Truffles Truffles are pure natural products and therefore often look different. It is completely normal for them to…

Equipment and Materials

Equipment for Truffle Hunting For truffle hunting, you don't need complicated or expensive equipment. What's much more important is that you're out…

Common mistakes and practical tips

Conclusion and Your Next Steps Let's wrap up the course. If you consistently apply the content, you won't have to wait long…