Agave & Cactus Talk

Walking the goats and talking why I love to cultivate and utilize Furcraea. In the same family as agave, Asparagaceae, Furcraea has an insane amount of potential, just like agave and cactus, to be dryfarmed and utilized for hundreds of different applications. If you need any Furcraea Foetida Mediopicta plants hit me up at any of my socials below. If you are one of my agave or cactus farms i consult for and want more info on Furcraea, just call me homies.
IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia
tiktok: agavexcactus
Pinterest : Agavero Californiano
eBay: Cactirecycling
Etsy: honestgreens
Websites:
Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales)
Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

In this episode I am driving through the LA National Forrest and talking about Chapparal Yucca aka Quixote aka Spanish bayonet, latin name hesperoyucca whipplei. Great plant!

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.

Un poco de discusión sobre esta tema y mi opinión

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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!