Agave & Cactus Talk

Agave & Cactus Talk

By steve sanchezSociety & CultureScienceNatural Sciences
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Agave & Cactus Talk episodes

  • 20 ways to make money with your agave farm; or also save money on your farm with agave, part 2
    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.
    39 min
  • 20 ways to make money with your agave farm; or also save money on your farm with agave, part 1
    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.
    48 min
  • Planet Mezcal interview # 2

    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! 

    1 hr 7 min
  • Interview from Amigas y Mezcal, Episode 25

    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. 

    1 hr 18 min
  • Mezcal Chat - Adrian/Planet Mezcal & me talk on IG Live

    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! 

    1 hr 17 min
  • Farming agave while respecting the environment, people & tradition
    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.
    1 hr 19 min

About Agave & Cactus Talk

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Talking about Agave & Cactus from farms to products. I will cover using permaculture practices on farms for the new industry of California Agave & Cactus, such as the use of animals & biomimicry. California Agave today is mainly being used for spirits, and cactus fruit is mainly being used for consumption or wine.