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Truffle Course: Learn Truffle Hunting With a Dog
Learn truffle hunting the way it should be today: modern, flexible, hands-on, and with ongoing support. Our truffle course combines real experiences in the forest with videos, the interactive Truffle Buddy app, a growing glossary, and an active community. You won’t just learn how to train your dog for truffles—you’ll learn to understand truffle hunting as a whole. Connect in the forum, ask questions, share experiences, and benefit from new insights from the community. Many participants have already found their first truffles with our course, and even experienced truffle hunters report that they have learned something new.
One course, one app, and one community to support you throughout your entire truffle adventure.
Learn truffle hunting with a dog
In the course, you will learn step by step how to condition your dog to real truffle scent, boost its motivation, and prepare it for searching in the forest. Using real training situations, we show you what works, which mistakes you can avoid, and how a successful search team is formed from human and dog. The structure is suitable for any dog breed and any age.
Understand truffle hunting without a dog
A good truffle hunter doesn’t simply follow their dog. They understand where and why truffles grow. You will learn to assess soils, vegetation, host trees, indicator plants, terrain, and other site factors. This way, you can identify suitable areas yourself and guide your dog specifically to the right spots. This knowledge will also help you if you want to search for truffles without a dog.
More than an online truffle course
Start right away—no travel, fixed dates, or long waiting times. Learn at your own pace on your PC or directly via the Truffle Buddy app, and access the course content again at any time. The app complements your knowledge with practical functions for truffle hunting, an interactive forum, and a continuously growing glossary on truffle species, indicator plants, environment, sites, and more. Your own experiences and input from the community also flow in. This is how knowledge grows together with the people who use it. Download the Truffle Buddy app for free and discover for yourself what’s behind it all.
Who is this truffle course suitable for?
The course is aimed at beginners and experienced truffle hunters who want to find wild truffles independently. You don’t need any prior knowledge and can start with or without a dog. Instead of dry theory, you get hands-on knowledge that you can apply directly to your own truffle hunting.
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These topics are covered in the truffle course
Introduction to the World of Truffle Hunting
It's great to have you here! In this first lesson, we'll lay the foundation together for a very special adventure: truffle hunting…
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…
Footage from the truffle course – at real truffle spots
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