After 12 long years of cultivating his garden, Prince Philip has finally done it: grown truffles in his own backyard. OK, not in his backyard, but at the queen’s Sandringham royal estate in Norfolk.

CROP OPTION: Truffles could offer a new and potentially lucrative choice to WNC farmers wishing to diversify their crops. Truffles can fetch anywhere from $800 to $2,000 per pound. Pictured here is ...

There is a fungus the size of a golf ball that sells for more per ounce than most people earn in a day. It smells like garlic soaked in earth and aged cheese, and it cannot survive more than about a ...

Many black truffle types can be proliferated by artificial means on spore-impregnated roots in tree plantations. These days they are grown not only in France but also in Italy, the United States, ...