Blue Frog Truffles

After a very dry summer and autumn, requiring constant irrigation, the 2019 Truffle Season is nearly upon us. Late autumn has bought cooler weather and if it continues we can expect a good year for truffle.

You’re able to book places in our hunts now on our Truffle Hunts page. Hopefully we’ll see you soon!

For the second year in a row we have had very hot and dry summer months requiring diligent monitoring of moisture content and irrigation to ensure a good fruiting season. Growers are hoping for the onset of the usual cold weather in late April to promote the ripening ahead of the commencement of harvest in June.  If we have a particularly early start to winter, harvest could begin late May but weather to date would not indicate that.  We will keep you posted.

We hope to see you visit and enjoy the opportunities offered by the Truffle Festival, including the Bluefrog Truffle Hunts and the many.  The Truffle Festival is celebrating its tenth year this year  and is arguably the longest truffle festival in the world, beginning about the Winter Solstice and running for the duration of the season, more than two months.

Changing colours of the trees and promising isolated groundswell in the truffiere indicates the lead up to the 2017 truffle season. The very hot and dry summer months required diligent monitoring of moisture content and irrigation to ensure a good fruiting season. Growers are hoping for the onset of the usual cold weather in April to promote the ripening ahead of the commencement of harvest in June.  If we have a particularly early start to winter, harvest could begin late May.  We will keep you posted.

We hope to see you visit and enjoy the opportunities offered by the Truffle Festival, including the Bluefrog Truffle Hunts.

The local weather continues to confound the local truffle growers, pushing back the harvest dates. The increased warmth of the past week has significantly increased the 100 mm below ground temperatures from 5 degrees C to 10 degrees at Blue Frog Farm.  The heavy rain of the past weeks, combined with increased temperatures may also add to the increased chance of rot in the truffle, another truffle farmers nightmare.  Blue Frog will begin searching over the coming weekend with fingers crossed for mature and aromatic truffle.

The truffle season in the Canberra region is dragging its feet due to the unseasonably warm start to winter. Ground temperatures (we measure that at 100mm depth) were at 15 degrees C at the beginning of May but have dropped over the past weeks and are now down to about 8 degrees. Would be good to see them down to 5. We will start harvesting 12 June.

A search of the Bluefrog truffle field indicates a promising start to the 2016 truffle season, with indications of truffle activity pushing up below the surface.  The unusually hot summer required vigilance in irrigating to prevent the loss of newly fruited truffle and the warmth of the autumn could mean a late season start, should it continue.  The cold nights and milder days of late are very promising.  Truffle are like any other agricultural crop and subject to the pressures of the climate

We look forward to seeing you all at the Bluefrog truffle hunts.

Blue Frog Truffle farm would like to thank its many clients and friends for their continued support through the 2015 season and we look forward to seeing you all again during the 2016 harvest beginning in June.  The Canberra and Region Truffle Festival will again commence during the weekend of the winter solstice in late June.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Local growers are gearing up for the 2015 Truffle Festival and looking forward to another good season.

Unfortunately, from 2015 Blue Frog is harvesting mid week and will not be conducting hunts for the public as part of the Festival.  If you are seeking a truffle hunt experience, please refer to the Festival Website for other opportunities.  You patronage in the past has been most appreciated.

We will, however, conduct pre-booked hunts for groups (20 +) for larger clients and will always welcome local chefs and their staff to visit and learn about this new and emerging local industry and the subtleties of growing, harvesting and preparing truffles.

Enjoy the Festival and please come and buy some truffle.

We were fortunate enough to have DK and Yvn come on one of our hunts and they’ve written all about it on their Excuse Me Waiter blog. Read all about it: Blue Frog Farm Truffle Hunt – Canberra Truffle Festival