Truffle Tree Adoption

Truffle Tree Adoption

$295.00

Truffles - the most intoxicating food on the planet. Rare, mysterious…something we usually have to go to a good restaurant to experience. And - unless you’re at a spot that puts serious attention into quality ingredients - chances are the truffle fries on the menu are made with synthetic truffle oil. Not a fleck of real truffle in the stuff. Even if you’re dining at Michelin star restaurants, where truffles truly abound - you don’t get to actually hold a truffle. Feel its magic. Fully SMELL its magic. An intoxicating smell like no other.

I love dining out, but is there anything more magical than having a fresh truffle - unearthed in Spain a couple days before - to eat on whatever you’d like in the coziness of home? And that’s just the first part of the Truffle Tree Adoption. Add to that another package of truffle products in the fall…and your name on your very own adopted truffle tree for the year - here at Wonderlland. You’ll also get an adoption packet as well as monthly emails all year long detailing how your adopted tree is doing, and you can even come visit the Truffiere just outside of St. Louis, Missouri - and picnic beside it while watching the swans glide around the lake.

Truffles are the perfect food because they’re incredibly special, but require very little work to serve. You just let them shine. Sliced thin over a simple risotto or buttery pasta, over fries, or - as I like them - on a pressed sandwich with butter. I send you easy recipes with your fresh truffle that can all be ready in moments - and with things you probably already have at the house or can grab anywhere (like bread, butter, pasta, pizza dough). So easy and so unforgettable. Magical.

So what are you waiting for? Winter Perigord Black Truffle season ends this week, and this special adoption package - that excitingly includes a fresh truffle - will end with it. Truffle tree adoptions will likely open up again in a different form, but that is yet to be decided. So now is the time to buy.

All the details: As a Truffle Tree Adopter, you get:

  • A year’s worth of truffle products shipped to your door (at no additional shipping cost to you beyond the adoption price). This includes a welcome package with key to the Truffle Orchard, and 2 packages of truffle products spread across the year - the first to be a one ounce Winter Perigord Black Truffle to arrive now, and the second filled with 1 bottle of truffle oil and 1 jar of truffle honey (or similar products selected based on my desire to deliver the most excellent items available at the time). The products are hand-curated by me, and sourced from the best and most highly regarded truffle importers. Most notably Ian Purkyayastha at Regalis - the humble rock star truffle expert to the Michelin Stars.

  • No risk and all reward. I’m keeping the risk as to when and whether your adopted tree will produce. You get truffle products no matter what. Your tree is currently a baby not yet at production age, which is perhaps the most fun time to adopt. The updates and learning experience this year will be packed with the most activity in the Truffle Orchard’s life.

  • To come out and visit your tree, tour the farm just outside of St. Louis, Missouri, and meet the farmer. You can even have a picnic by your tree with a view of the swans swimming the lake, if you so desire.

  • To make a tangible difference in farming today. A Truffle Tree Adoption helps small, sustainable farming, and supports the business of a single girl lawyer turned farmer. A girl farmer in her 30s running the whole show, like we need more of for our food future. (The average farmer is a 58-year-old male - many of whom sadly have no family wishing to take over when they retire.)

  • To learn about truffle cultivation. You will receive monthly updates on your tree, as well as information on how the mysterious Perigord Black Truffle is cultivated.

So, leave the application of 20 tons of agricultural lime to me, and you just reap the lluxurious and delicious rewards. Truffle cultivation is a truly mysterious and magical endeavor, and I’m so excited for you to join me in it.

The price of this item includes one year as an adoptive tree parent, as well as first option to renew for the next year and continue adopting your tree.

I can’t wait to have you out to the Truffiere! xoxo, Page

*All shipping is included in the price. Currently only available to ship to adopters within the United States. If you wish to participate internationally, I’d love to have you - but can’t extend free shipping. Please write to me at page@lluxuryandllamas.com, and we can discuss what additional shipping charges there might be to become a Truffle Tree Adopter from you location.

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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious - a hot, drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet inflames them - the truffles were coming! - William Makepeace Thackenay