In Mexico, underpinning the mezcal industry with sustainable agave production is crucial to long-term land health and livelihoods.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A high priority is spacing pups to accommodate growth. Most mature agaves generate offsets (rhizomatous suckers) called “pups.” This is a vegetative or ...

Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden.

Thanks to this agave, given the scientific name of “sanpedroensis” because it was found along the San Pedro River, it is known that the Hohokam culture (800-1450 AD) knew how to domesticate plants ...

Climate change, corporate money, soaring demand—can Mexico’s local agave growers find a viable path for a beloved beverage? José Santiago of Palenque Don Lencho, in San Pablo Guilá village, with ...