Agave & Cactus Talk

Talking about my experiences growing agave desmettiana variegata in california and observations ive made about the plant, how it grows, and what its potential uses are. It is an agave that is becoming one of my favorites as it is in the top 5 of agaves i cultivate in terms of numbers. Currently have over 20k of them planted. If you have any questions about agave desmettiana variegata or want to purchase any plants for your farm/garden, feel free to contact me anywhere below or leave a comment IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia tiktok: agavexcactus Pinterest : Agavero Californiano eBay: Cactirecycling Etsy: honestgreens Websites: Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales) Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

Walking the goats and talking why I love to cultivate and utilize Furcraea. In the same family as agave, Asparagaceae, Furcraea has an insane amount of potential, just like agave and cactus, to be dryfarmed and utilized for hundreds of different applications. If you need any Furcraea Foetida Mediopicta plants hit me up at any of my socials below. If you are one of my agave or cactus farms i consult for and want more info on Furcraea, just call me homies. IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia tiktok: agavexcactus Pinterest : Agavero Californiano eBay: Cactirecycling Etsy: honestgreens Websites: Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales) Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

In this episode I am driving through the LA National Forrest and talking about Chapparal Yucca aka Quixote aka Spanish bayonet, latin name hesperoyucca whipplei. Great plant!

Talking about 8 CA Native Cacti, and why I think they have significant potential to be dryfarmed in California. I discuss how you may profit off them, how ive profited from them, and how ive utilized them. I also mention 1 Naturalized and 1 usa Native Cactus. Use this podcast as a primer for farming California Native cactus and creating a framework to farm natives in your local. Here are the 10 plants i mentioned today: Cylindropuntia Imbricata, CA Native Cyllindropuntia Imbricata subs Spinosior, debatable CA native, AZ for sure. Cylindropuntia Echinocarpa , Silver Cholla, CA Native Cylindropuntia Ramosissima, CA Native Echinocactus Polycephalus subs Polycephalus, red barrel cactus, CA native Echinocactus Polycephalus subs Xeranthemoides, gold barrel cactus, CA native Opuntia Basilaris subs basilaris, beaverstail cactus, Opuntia Phaeacantha, Tulip prickly pears, CA Native Opuntia Littoralis , CA naturalized, Native to baja. Opuntia linguiformis, Texas prickly pears, TX Native Contact me if you need any of these for your farm. I farm them at scale mostly. Have a great day peeps.

Un poco de discusión sobre esta tema y mi opinión

Hablando de unas de las razones porque me encanta crecer agaves y Nopales juntos. Los dos se complementan mucho. Gracias por escuchar.

Hablando un poco de como crecer agave y Chivas a la misma vez es algo beneficioso para el sembrador. 

part 2, 11-20 11- if you have animals combine with animal manure in a biodigester to make your own natural biofuel and run your heating and cooking utilities off that. 12 - process leaves into fiber and dry it and sell it, make clothes or w/e 13- plant giant agave as a windbreaker and firebreak to help save you on water and potentially future emergencies. 14- make distillates from the quiotes 15- sell the agave leaf skin, used in mexixan cuisines 16- sell agave roots, sustainable harvesting 17- create your own hybrids, interspecies hybrids. TC them. patent and lease them 18- create new farms with the plants you sell, sell installation services 19- sell carbon credits 20- seek grants or money for Carbon sequestration or heavy metal sequestration , restoration 21, sell to ngos or gov looking to restore. grow natives and restore.

part 1, ways 1-10 1- sell your leaves to a BBQ spot 2- grind it up and ferment it and sell as an animal sillage 3 - sell your pinas to distillers, or create your own spirit from the pinas. 4- make and sell pulque, 5- aquamiel distillates, pulque distillates 6- sell to agave wine producers, niche market may need to do yourself 7- sell agave stalks whole or grinded to packaging producers to use in a packaging products, or sell it yourself 8- sell agave plants, preferably your pups, keep seeded, ca, usa and global market. 9- harvest the quiotes and collect seed, bubils, sell the fresh quiotes at farmers markets, to chefs, sell older quiotes and building products or stakes 10 - let your animals forage the agave fields to fertilize, aerating agave. boost pup production. increase stress for variegation. spend less on feed.

This podcast is a conversation I had with Keirstyn Amponsah, who is researching Dryfarming/Sustainable Farming Practices with Purdue. She had some great questions & this convo has alot of cool knowledge i think will help you podcast listeners. New podcast coming soon on agave. Enjoy!

In this podcast I am having a talk with Adrian from Planet Mezcal for a 2nd time. We go into Agave hybrids, California Agave farming, California AB 2606, & of course what i do on my farm as well here in California. It was a fun talk and the live video is available on instagram on my profile @ farmingandgardeningcalifornia .   Feel free to leave comments or suggestions for later episodes. I will get to uploading some podcasts soon, been real busy shipping plants. Anyways, enjoy! 

Here is a talk i did with the ladies from Amigas y Mezcal. They were kind enough to invite me on their show and i was more then willing. They had excellent questions and I wanted to put this in audio form because it had alot of great information. It was a great episode, give it a listen. If you want to skip to that podcast, skip to 13:50. Have a good one everyone. Have a backlog of podcasts i will begin uploading, while ive been away from uploading episodes, I have not stopped making them, I just been busy so I haven't had time to upload. Have a great day everyone. 

Skip to 2:05, thats when they connnect & i am on shortly after. This is a IG live for the Tequiladies show, in which I talked California Agave & California Agave Spirits with the Tequiladies. Follow them on Instagram & Youtube. We discuss some of my background, Agave, Tequila and much more. I hope you enjoy this talk, have a great day. 

Skip to 6:30 to get past our technical difficulties at the begining with me trying to connect. In this talk we discuss the California agave Industry & agave spirits being made in CA. We go over farming techniques, the liquor industry & much more. It was done last year, but thought it would still be helpful. If you want to see the live video, follow Planet Mezcal on instagram! Lots of great educational content on Agave & Mezcal. Enjoy the talk, have a great day! 

Today I talk about an article I read called “Mezcal must challenge irresponsible agave farming”. It was a very interesting article talking about how we can make sure to grow agave in a sustainable fashion, that benefits environment, people and tradition. I hope you learned something in today’s podcast as a lot of the points that the main character in the article explains are things we are trying to implement here in California andhaving success with. We hope him a lot of success on his journey of trying to make Mezcal more sustainable, and we will use his words as inspiration to make California Agave as sustainable as possible.