General Meeting - March 12, 2009
Our CMS speaker for March 12th is Jean Rand, who will discuss and demonstrate her work with Gusto, a certified Search and Rescue Dog she has cross-trained as a truffle dog! Jean and Gusto together have found Oregon winter white truffles (Tuber oregonense), Oregon spring white truffles (Tuber gibbosum), and Oregon black truffles (Leucangium carthusianum). Jean will share fascinating details about their training process and field methods, highlighting Gusto’s intelligence, and the discipline and flexibility of their partnership to find these underground culinary fungi. The meeting is Thursday at the LCC, 7pm.
NATS March Meeting: Tuesday, March 10, 7:30pm
The North American Truffling Society is hosting speaker Greg Bonito from Duke University, presenting “The latest insights into the genus Tuber.” The meeting will be held at the Corvallis Multicutural Literacy Center at 128 SW 9th street in Corvallis (the big yellow house between Monroe and Madison avenues; click here for a map). There is parking on 9th street and in the dirt lot at the SW corner of 9th and Monroe.