In Arizona, a resort and a nano-distillery see promise in small-scale agave farming, focusing on native species.

Tequila production is a time-honored process that involves growing and harvesting agave, but how much liquor can one plant ...

For Sergio Mendoza, tequila begins long before distillation or aging—it begins in the soil. The Don Fulano co-founder grew up ...

'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera) is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat. After blooming, the plants are expected to die shortly thereafter, usually leaving behind clones of ...

SEQUIM — Isobel Johnston’s agave plant is about to go to new heights, blooming into a towering sight to see along Fifth Avenue in Sequim. A new stalk emerged recently from the nearly 30-year-old plant ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Agaves are popular gardeners’ plants because of their range of sizes, colors and leaf forms. I have been collecting Agaves for years and have been intrigued ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

Get to know one of the Sonoran Desert’s most stubborn dwellers, a plant so productive it’s earned its place in history. The humble agave, those speared “leaf” plants, is more than a spiky blue-green ...

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life. “Meet Agave ...