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“Growing truffle is a lovely combination of science and alchemy,” says Jenny McAuley. “There's some magic in it.”
For five generations McAuley’s family has had a farm in the same spot in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Back in her grandparents’ day, it was a cherry and apple orchard. But in 2003 McAuley took on a section of the land and decided to take a risk with planting truffles – a crop notoriously difficult and slow-growing. She planted her first trees in 2005. In 2010, she dug up her first truffle. “I now say I’m growing something like apples, only underground,” she says.
