To revive uncultivated land, preserving a heritage that is a symbol of Made in Italy excellence: the truffle. Wealth, biodiversity and long-term sustainability, these are Truffleland’s goals.

The precious and fascinating world of the truffle is endangered by factors such as abandonment of the maintenance of the woods and deforestation of suitable areas left uncultivated. The loss of a genetic biodiversity of the truffle would then contribute to a cultural flattening and would lead to a loss of popular traditions, uses and customs.

The Truffleland project was born from the pure passion and entrepreneurial audacity of the Urbani Tartufi company which has taken on the responsibility of increasing the Italian production of truffles through the development of a complete system, to offer anyone a turnkey business and offer concrete opportunities. professional.

The innovation of truffle farming

Truffleland starts from a large nursery, located in Scheggino (PG) in Valnerina, which produces mycorrhizal plants for the cultivation of truffles with a revolutionary methodology. New truffle plants that are born, in the center of infinite natural truffle fields that have been there for centuries and that need new strength. Then planted outside, for five years they sit quietly absorbing all the nourishment, patiently waiting for the earth to ripen.

Truffleland blends the new techniques of precision agriculture and smart farms with the traditional ones of a centenary profession: in fact, microchips are inserted in the Truffleland plantations that help to monitor every phase of the production process and which will be useful in the future to study why some plants produce more truffles and others less.

Objective: to preserve biodiversity

Truffleland is the enhancement of biodiversity, it is the most virtuous way for the recovery of abandoned areas, for increasing the profitability of uncultivated mountain land, through the creation of ecosystems with very high biodiversity with a beneficial impact on the environment. In Italy and in the world. Anyone who has land suitable for truffle farming will find an innovative, exciting and profitable business model in Truffleland.

Investment for the future

Truffleland truffle cultivation also allows you to obtain immediate correlated income, thanks to the collection service of the goods with payment on delivery, at the current market price. Truffleland technicians have the task of verifying the suitability of the soil, building the system and following its growth. The support is also ensured in the following years, up to the collection of the precious truffles.

With Truffleland, Urbani Tartufi thus accompanies farmers from sowing the plant to selling the product.

At the truffle school

Truffleland is also about to give life to a training company that will be included in the regional list of educational farms, where training, information, updating and education activities will be organized for students and operators, in line with what has been most recently discovered. in the field of truffle cultivation.

For information and advice: www.truffleland.com