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!
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