From Forest to Your Table: Truffle Foraging and Environmental Impact

From Forest to Your Table: How We Harvest Truffle

Every truffle that arrives from Luna Nuova Tartufi has followed a precise path: from the forests of Montefiore Conca and the surrounding valleys, to the forager, to Alessandro who hand-selects each piece, and finally to your door. It is a short, traceable chain, built over time.

But there is a part of this story that rarely gets told: everything that happens before the truffle reaches our hands.

The Journeys into the Forest

Truffle foraging is not a desk job. It means getting up at dawn, loading the dog into the car, driving to the hill forests of Romagna — often to places that are hard to reach, along dirt tracks, in any weather. It means doing this regularly, season after season, because the truffle does not wait.

All of this has an environmental cost. The trips to collect from foragers, the transfers between different woodland plots, the collection logistics — these are real kilometres, driven in real vehicles, with real CO₂ emissions.

The Choice: Compensate, Not Ignore

We chose not to ignore this. Through the DKV Card CLIMATE programme, in partnership with myclimate Deutschland gGmbH, the emissions from our vehicle fleet have been fully compensated by financing Gold Standard certified climate protection projects.

The concrete result: 1 tonne of CO₂ compensated for 2025, certified by myclimate — one of the most respected international non-profit organisations in the field of voluntary carbon offsetting.

This is not greenwashing. It is a measurable, documented choice, verified by a third party.

Why It Matters to Us

The truffle exists because the forest exists. The forest exists because of a balance — of climate, soil, and biodiversity — that we cannot take for granted. Those who have foraged truffles for generations know this: when the climate shifts, so does the truffle. Seasons move, quantities change, certain forests produce less.

Offsetting our emissions is not a marketing act. It is consistency with the product we sell and the land that produces it.

What Changes for You

Nothing visible. The truffle arrives the same way, with the same care. But knowing that every purchase from Luna Nuova Tartufi is part of a supply chain that takes its environmental impact seriously — for those who care about these things, that counts for something.

To learn more about myclimate's work, visit: myclimate.org.

The DKV Climate 2025 certificate issued to Spadoni Pregiati S.r.l. is available on request.