La Cerca - Tartufi Biologici

Truffle - Treasure of The Earth

La Cerca - The Organic Truffle of the Marche Region

The Search does not express only an action, but tells a style of life, an interior attitude. That sense of wonder for nature, which leads us to respect it. I like to call it culture: because only with this look at the world can we leave it a better place for ourselves and for our children.

An Ancient Tradition

In an unspoilt land, we keep on preserving the ancient art of “la cerca” just like in the past. Each adventure begins with a research in the “tartufaia” with our dogs, to discover the most precious treasure of the land: The Truffle.

La Cerca - Passion for Nature, Culture of the Territory

Sometimes, when people see the name of our company, they smile and nod by seeing that our main activity is selling truffles. Choosing our brand name, we played with the literal meaning of the word “La Cerca” (that means the search of truffles, truffle hunting), but there is much more to say…

La Cerca was born to give value to truffles, too often seen as nothing more than a delicious treat. We think truffles are much more than this: they are the expression of our territory, of our traditions and emotions. Truffle’s unique and intense taste is the peak of a multisensory experience that takes us from the table to the woodland, where the silence is broken just by the steps of a man and his dogs and where our story of  passion, respect and preservation begins.

Our activity tells a love story about an ancient tradition, handed down from father to son. It tells the story of a special couple: the dog and his owner,  bound by a great complicity, searching together for that hidden fruit that is worth the efforts and sacrifices. A love for a simple lifestyle, for a genuine and intimate relationship and for the safeguard of authentic flavours. We try to spread those values and transmit the emotions we experience everyday searching for truffles such as: the inner peace revealing itself in the woodland, the pleasure of smelling of the soil, the happiness in seeing the dog wagging, the surprise of being enchanted by the nature every day…

La Cerca aims also to show what it is wrong with this world, where the common prosperity and respect for the land are often subjected to personal gain.

We are waiting for you…

Alessandro Benvenuti.

La Cerca - Azienda Agricola of Alessandro Benvenuti

A Genuine Taste

Only natural products: no preservatives, no chemical flavouring agents. Our scented truffles are wisely combined with the best Italian raw materials to create food specialties with an authentic taste.

An Experience to Live

"La Cerca" is a multisensory experience In respect of nature and people. Do you wanna try this "truffle experience" with us?

Truffle Experience

Walking through the woodlands, listening to its sounds, feeling its scents: step by step, the smell of digged soil… and finally the discovery. It’s in the act of searching for truffles where I express all my love for this rich and generous land, worthy of respect and protection. To make you live a multi-sensorial experience and the rural feeling that binds us to the earth. Would you like to come with us and try this experience?

“La Cerca” it’s not just an action, it’s love for a simple lifestyle, for a genuine personal relationship and for the preservation of authentic flavors. We want to share with you, the emotion we experience everyday while searching for truffles: the inner peace that comes while entering the woods, the pleasure of felling the soil with our own hands, the happiness in seeing my dogs wagging, the pleasure to be surprised everyday by nature.

We are waiting for you!

A Kitchen Tip

Truffle in all the ways! You can choose how to use them or check our recipes.

A More Attenction

To ensure the high quality of “La Cerca” products, the whole production cycle in subjected to rigid organic control system.

Why you Should Apply for an Organic Certificate for Truffles?

Organic agriculture it’s a production system in tune with the environment and the man’s needs.

This doesn’t mean a return to the ancient methods but instead to develop a model of sustainable production avoiding to plunder the natural resources (especially lands), generating overall environmental wellness.

Organic is also education, respect for nature as land, environmental and social sustainability.

Someone told us that certify truffles had no meaning as it is a natural product of the underbrush. Well, first I want to say that we have not certified the truffles as products, but most importantly we have identified a specific origin territory: our truffles are 100% italians, coming from Marche Region. Also, even products we sell are 100% organically made.

A Product for All

Our philosophy brought us to think of respect for natur, people and animals. For this reason, many of our products are suitable for vegans.

Products Suitable for a Vegan Diet

Some products of the organic line “La Cerca” are suitable for vegans. Not only because during the transformation there is no contamination nor the use of food of non animal origin, but especially for our business philosophy, that led/ brought us to think first of all to the respect of nature, people and animals.

Sustainable research of the truffleEveryday we commit ourselves in our own little, to protect and improve a piece of wooded productive land, preserving it from the exploitation of wood traders, cleaning it again from unwanted plants, bringing back at the end of the season parts of truffle to increase, in the land, the number of spores and assure the production in the following years. This would not have been enough, if we had not followed also those rules that suggest truffle hunting only when it is in season and gathering the scented and ripe ones, preferring the respect to the commercial needs. Only in this way truffles, dogs and the nature of the place, become the undisputed actors of an ancient tradition that allows us with huge pleasure to narrate the joy of doing a job that is alway different, rich of surprises, emotions and relationships.

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