Volker Miros, 81, who picked mushrooms with his grandfather as a child in Germany, is a pioneer of South Africa's budding truffle cultivation industry. truffles farmer
"The same thing needs to be looked at 35 degrees south" - where the family farm lies around 1 100 metres above sea level, he said.
After six years of trial and error, and tonnes of calcitic lime to counter the soil's acidity, the first truffles were finally unearthed. The most prolific of the orchards yields close to 10 kilograms of truffles per hectare each season, which spans South Africa's coldest months from June to August.
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