On Wednesday, March 9, the Olympic Peninsula Mycological Society will hold the first monthly membership meeting of the 2016 season.

The meeting will be held at the Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road, Sequim. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The club will host Kris Jacobson, from Eugene, Ore., founder of Umami Truffle Dogs.

Truffles rank among the world’s top culinary delicacies and Umami Truffle Dogs fields the most experienced, best-trained teams of professional truffle-harvesting dogs in the country.

Ilsa, a Belgian Malinois, is her current working truffle dog. On Feb. 28, 2013, Jacobson and Ilsa made Oregon agricultural history by discovering and harvesting the first cultivated Tuber melanosporum (French périgord) truffle in a Willamette Valley truffiere.

A donation of $5 is suggested for non-OPMS members.