The UK Truffle Festival is as much about discovery as it is about taste.
Beyond the talks and demonstrations, our festival marketplace brings together a diverse community of growers, makers, artisans and traders who all share a passion for truffles and nature. From fresh produce and gourmet creations to tools, training and unique gifts, this is where you’ll find the flavours, knowledge and inspiration to take home.
The Real Truffle Hunters
Led by Julie Stopforth, The Real Truffle Hunters is a family-run team with nearly 20 years of experience hunting wild truffles across Europe, including the rare white winter truffle (Tuber magnatum). Julie also runs a popular YouTube channel and is the festival’s official white truffle supplier — taste and buy fresh truffles at her stand on the day.
Black Gold Experiences
Founded by Hajira Ahmad, Black Gold Experiences brings the magic of Italy’s truffle culture to the UK through intimate supper clubs, bespoke adventures, and premium artisan products crafted in small batches with high truffle content. Meet Hajira at the festival to hear her story and explore her elegant range.
The Lagotto Romagnolo Club of Great Britain
Founded in 1996, when the Lagotto Romagnolo was still little-known beyond Italy, the LRCGB introduced the breed to the UK and helped spearhead its spread worldwide. The club follows a strict code of ethics to keep the Lagotto true to type, sound in temperament and robust in health, and is internationally respected for supporting frontline genetic research that protects and broadens the breed’s gene pool.
Honouring the Lagotto’s history as both an ancient duck retriever and a specialist truffle dog, the LRCGB promotes responsible gundog work on land and water and celebrates the breed’s versatility in agility, rally and obedience, as well as its suitability as a family companion.
At the UK Truffle Festival the LRCGB team will be on hand with experienced Lagotti to explain training methods, answer questions on health and breeding, and demonstrate why this keen-nosed Italian breed is the perfect dog for truffle hunting.
Sulis Truffle Hunter
Founded by Dan Head, Sulis Truffle Hunter combines wild truffle hunting with the craft of sustainable tools. With his spaniel, Winnie, Dan searches for British truffles and manages orchards across the UK. He also hand-forges specialist tools designed for shallow soils, minimising disturbance and protecting fragile habitats for future harvests.
Truffe Périgord & Black Diamond Truffle Trees
Eight years ago, Bianca and Chris left corporate life for a farm in Périgord, France — now home to their family-run venture, Black Diamond Truffle Trees. Alongside sustainable cultivation and a Truffle Tree Adoption Scheme, they also supply fresh truffles with the help of their Lagotto, Duggy. This year they introduce Truffe Périgord, a boutique skincare range infused with truffles, showcased in the UK for the first time.
Golden Horn Farm
Golden Horn Farm is a six-acre mushroom farm set on a hilltop beside an old Roman road and a circular copse overlooking the South Downs.
Led by founder James Dodson, the team grows a wide variety of delicious and beneficial mushrooms, cultivating outdoors on logs and indoors in a refurbished 200-year-old barn. Almost everything is kept in-house, from wild strain selection to small-batch tinctures, blending scientific method with creativity and seasonal rhythm. With James, head grower Adrian, and Lawrence (Kaizen Cordyceps), the farm has planted more than 700 trees and now welcomes visitors as the site evolves.
Their range includes carefully made extracts such as Reishi and Lion’s Mane tinctures, reflecting a focus on habitat health and beneficial fungi.
Rough Around the Hedges
Louise Arthur is a basketmaker and teacher based in Hampshire, England UK. She combines contemporary design and heritage skills with her passion for the environment. Her baskets are hand woven from sustainably grown British willow and often incorporate hedgerow plants, foraged fibres and coppiced wood. Welcome to her life on the hedge, weaving people and nature together.
Louise Ferguson Fine Art
An artist for over 40 years, Louise draws inspiration from animals, woodland and the British landscape. Everything changed in 2009 when her first Lagotto, Lola, arrived. Since then she has shown and worked her dogs as gundogs and truffle dogs, and now serves as Chair of the Lagotto Romagnolo Club of Great Britain.
Louise’s recent artwork is rooted in days spent truffle hunting with her Lagotti, celebrating the partnership between handler and dog, the majesty of the trees, and the hidden mycorrhizal world beneath our feet. Meet Louise at the festival, explore her work, and chat all things Lagotto and truffles.
Old Tree Brewery
Old Tree Brewery is a community interest company micro-fermentary based in Glynde (Sussex), using the transformative power of fermentation to create delicious, live drinks. They use traditional brewing techniques to produce creative, experimental brews using a wide range of UK plants.
Like an Old Tree, they work in harmony with people, plants and microbes for social, ecological and economic good. Having a net positive impact on the environment is at the core of everything they do.
Rude Dog Food
Rude Dog Food is a family-run UK brand founded by brothers Patrick and Christopher, specialising in fresh, raw meals made from British-sourced meat with simple, human-grade ingredients and no fillers or preservatives.
Their range includes complete and 80-10-10 blends, plus options for active or sensitive dogs, all frozen for freshness and delivered nationwide direct to your door.
The company sets out to move dogs away from ultra-processed foods toward a natural, whole-food diet, with clear ingredient breakdowns, a raw-feeding guide and calculator to help owners switch with confidence.
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Explore, Taste, and Connect
From growers to chefs, trainers to artisans, our exhibitors and traders bring passion, expertise, and plenty of flavour to The UK Truffle Festival. Take your time, explore the stalls, and don’t be shy to chat — every stand has a story to tell, and something delicious or inspiring to share.
👉 Come hungry, curious, and ready to discover — this is your chance to experience the truffle world up close and take a little piece of it home with you.