It's a familiar plant for Rodriguez. He grew up in a small town in the Mexican state of Jalisco, where agave is everywhere. Generations of his family have cultivated the crop. He'd imagined ...
The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the heart of the plant. It's then extracted, filtered, and heated to create the product sold in stores.
Some are turning to growing agave as a response to a warming... California farmers turn to agave amid drought conditions and climate change Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is ...
She said she was hopeful the plant would take off in SA. "It's quite uncommon to see agave grown, there's a farm that's quite large up in Queensland, but Queensland is nice and warm and quite wet ...