“Show me. Where is it? Good boy!” Drake, a two-year-old spaniel, has laid down at the foot of a tree and is scratching with his front paws while looking expectantly at his owner Alice for a treat. The excitable dog has sniffed out a buried vile containing a sliver of truffle, used to help train his tracking abilities. In a couple of weeks, he’ll be helping unearth the real deal as the highly prized fungi ripens around the roots of 800 trees at Beltana Farm. This is not what I…
