Agave & Cactus Talk

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. 

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! 

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.

Brazilian farmers use Agave for biofuels & slowing the expansion of deserts

Today, i talk about Brazilian Agave. The farmers & researchers are very innovative in Brazil & are using alot of advances in agriculture to explore & utilize the agave plant for a variety of uses, such as: bioenergy, biofuels, biomethane, biohydrogen, biochar & even slowing the deserts expansion. I think there is alot of positives in what they are doing as well as alot of negatives, but you can make your own opinion as we talk about some of the implications of what they are doing, such as creating GMO agave & yeasts. We also get into how i believe these projects could improve a bit and how California can learn and improve from them as well. Enjoy! Follow me on:
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If you need any agave & cactus plants, free to reach out.I dont have everything, but i know everyone who does, lol. Peace yall.

Cactus Biofuels Part 1 - How Indian Cactus Farmers are creating bio methane from cactus

This is the 1st half to an almost 3 hour long podcast on this very interesting topic of cactus biofuels. opinions and thoughts on this cactus farming that is going on in India. I show how we in California and Mexico can learn from India and apply what they are learning and producing to everywhere. I also give thoughts on how to improve not only Indian cactus farming but how to take what they are doing and improve it globally. enjoy!

Cactus Biofuels Part 2 - How Indian Cactus Farmers are creating bio methane from cactus

This is the 2nd half to an almost 3 hour long podcast on this very interesting topic of cactus biofuels. opinions and thoughts on this cactus farming that is going on in India. I show how we in California and Mexico can learn from India and apply what they are learning and producing to everywhere. I also give thoughts on how to improve not only Indian cactus farming but how to take what they are doing and improve it globally. enjoy!

Talking Agave cultivation, culture, genetics, farming practice, with Agaves de Occidente

Today we talking with my good friend Agaves De Occidente. He is cultivating all types of agaves in Jalisco, Mexico. common, and rare species alike. We talk about the current agave industry in Mexico and USA and how we are trying to promote the use of not only a diverse array of agaves, but also cacti, trees and shrubs, and preferably the native plants in your region to get the best results.
 
We talk about agave farming culture, a little history, and relating back to our ancestors in our grandparents who introduced us to agave. We go into saving agave species, agave polycultures and changing how agave is cultivated by educating people on all of these topics. By educating we hope for farmers in mexico and usa to use lots of agaves and different plants; and change the bad name us agave cultivators are getting because most only know agave monoculture that is destructive to people, environment and agave genetics. If people knew the alternatives they would know we can actually be the solution to these issues, and farmers would switch and go back to a polcyulture, a permaculture managment style.
 
we intend to put our grain of salt to help farmers in any country do that, but specifically in Jalisco mexico with him and California, USA with me. Enjoy this podcast! it is in spanish because we want to have spanish podcasts so people learn that only speak spanish too. I also wanted my friend to talk in his native tongue, which is what he is more comfortable expressing his views in. If you know spanish, enjoy, if not well i am sorry enjoy the other 19 english podcats and get your spanish skills up because alot of agave knowledge comes from spanish speakers. If i have time, i do intend on making a voiceover translation but no guarantees i am busy busy lol.
 
Follow my friend Agaves de Occidente on instagram and follow the podcast, agavencactustalk on instagram. Anyways enjoy! 

Why Australia should farm cactus, not be at war with it

Today I focus’s an article I read about how the Australian government and farmers are combating cacti. this is an issue they have dealt with in 3 different centuries and I discuss how I believe they are approaching the problem from the wrong angle. cactus has the potential to be a giant cash crop in Australia but they choose to wage a loosing war poisoning their soil, environment and even people by how they manage cacti as an invasive species. Interesting stuff because my view is cactus is a huge help to ecosystems , while they see it as a pest.