“That’s impacting what agave species I grow in my nursery.” The second harvest ever of La Paloma agave was in early November. Anthony Caspary of Ventura Spirits brought the first batch of agave spirit ...
The planting, growing and harvesting of agave is all manual labor. “They are absolutely enormous,” Turner said. Three times a week, a special tool with sharp blades is used to harvest the ...
Artisanal mezcal resists machinery. Mezcaleros harvest agave year round, but it's no low-hanging fruit. Workers, called jimadores, pry the agave from the ground, cut away its spikes using a ...
Mezcaleros harvest agave year round but it's no low-hanging fruit. Pried from the earth, the spikes are removed by machete…revealing the heart - the piña - which looks like a hundred pound ...