Black Gold

On Friday we visited an old RAAF mate of Keith's (Al Blakers) and he owns and operates Manjimup Truffles....otherwise known as "black gold". They are worth a fortune and a lot are sent overseas. The season here is only three months June-September. They are also grown in France and Italy.
Now we have all the secrets on how to grow them but..............you really need to know what you are doing.
It is hard to believe why they are worth so much money and they actually look like a chocolate truffle (I presume that is where they get the name, the chocolate ones I mean) but they grow in the ground on the roots of trees. They use dogs to search for the ripe ones. They weren't quite ready so we didn't see the dogs at work.
Very interesting. He is laughing all the way to the bank apparently.