Agave & Cactus Talk

California Native Cactus that have potential to be a crop

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.

Se deberia continuar la exportacion de agave de mexico? (Español)

Un poco de discusión sobre esta tema y mi opinión

Agaves y Nopales (Español)

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

Agaves y Chivas (Español)

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

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.

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.

Getting interviewed by Purdue Dryfarming/Sustainable Farming Researcher

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!

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! 

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. 

Tequiladies #109 - Talking California Agave Spirits with the tequiladies

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.