About the Owner: Sarah Colby

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Sarah Colby's secret goal is to help save the world from climate change through promoting PNW truffle science and industry. A cheeky statement, but why not use your hobby, hunting with your dogs, for the good. How’s she trying to do that?

  1. Leasing small forest land for native truffle harvesting - to help landowners generate income to invest in reforestation and leaving trees standing longer to sequester carbon. She is part of a cooperative of hunters working to promote truffle harvesting thru the Oregon Small Woodland Association.

  2. Hunting with dogs for over 12 years, she harvests sustainably.

  3. Forays - fun, tasty, and interesting environmental stewardship education.

  4. Volunteering as the NATS event coordinator - help membership grow raising money to fund research. She thinks more forest research is needed. Some sources indicate that mass timber building is more sustainable than concrete and steel, yet research around mass timber is not funded to the same extent.

  5. Helping NATS attend events - aiding in educating the public on the natural science of truffles and help local economies/tourism around the culinary truffle industry. 

  6. Sponsored a meeting this summer of PNW foragers and industry entrepreneurs on native truffle infusion and other food uses - to improve food safety, distribution, and sales on a larger scale.

Sarah is passionate about the connection we have to the land and spending time people who feel the same. She dreamed of having a Lagotto Romagnolo for many years after visiting the Oregon Truffle Festival and meeting one of these truly amazing dogs. She discovered Truffles right near our property with her good nosed Schnauzer and became hooked on the fun of hunting. She researched and learned about Lagotti for several years before gettin and training her own quality working dog.

She brought Thea into our family. Such a smart girl with working desire. The perfect dogs for our sweet active life. Thea and her future dog family have grow with our family and we continue on our adventure of truffle hunting, food production, and sharing the joy with anyone who wants to learn.

Living in the northwest and Portland in particular has helped us define our goals. We are so fortunate to live in Portland and Willamette valley with all the forests, agriculture, and food innovation it has to offer.