Season 2 Episode 41 of Agave & Cactus Talk. A conversation on Agave with my friend Chris from @nativotexas . We chat about our agave farms and some of the things we have been implementing! Merry Xmas to everyone 🎄    

Todays episode is a primer on beginning to think of agave as a building material. It has been used for lots of different building solutions from foundations, floors, walls, roofing, and as replacement studs among other uses. Enjoy the podcast, and have a great day! *** If you need any Agave, cactus or furcraea plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Todays episode is on why having rainwater capture systems and solar energy on your farm can be beneficial and how it can make you a more adaptive, profitable, and sustainable farmer. I think energy and water systems can easily be compromised by corporations or the government and you should seek to be as independent as possible to always make sure your farm is running. Enjoy the podcast, and have a great day! *** If you need any Agave, cactus or furcraea plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Hey everyone, today's podcast is on choosing a piece of land to farm. Mainly I'll be talking today about how I chose my piece of land to farm agave & cactus, and hopefully you'll learn some lessons that you can apply to the search of your land that you want to utilize to farm. Enjoy the podcast! *** If you need any Agave, cactus or furcraea plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

In this episode I talk about when I choose to plant to dryfarm my agave and cactus and some advice and tips for your area so you may so the same. Dryfarming has to start during s certain time and you have to be vigilant to not let the windows skip you by. in California that windows has already started as we have gotten some great storms. So we plant!! Enjoy the podcast and if you have any topics you want me to cover let me know. Have a great day! *** If you need any Furcraea, agave or cactus plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

In this podcast i dive into an article called "cactus cultivation boosts rural development in SW China" by CGTN . It was a very interesting article full of implications, lessons and interesting facts that can help us farmers around the world be better cactus farmers and entrepreneurs. I dive into the article through my view and it really brought me alot of excitement as a cactus farmer, consultant, and farm developer. Hope you enjoy! *** If you need any Agave, cactus or furcraea plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Today I talk about an Adobe & stone hybrid oven i am building with my girlfriend Nory. Her style is Adobe, mine stone, so we combined the two to make something special. The base will be all native stone, & the top will be an adobe oven inside a step pyramid. We are about halfway finished & are now preparing to make adobe bricks. These smaller ovens can be very useful to cook food like bread and pizza or roast agave piñas, so it will serve many purposes. it is also positioned in a planting area to give heat to the young plants. Enjoy the podcast! *** If you need any Furcraea, agave or cactus plants contact me by email or message me on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com contact form on agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer *** Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Today I talk about an agave that has been getting alot of my attention lately. The last time I had mature agave Ovatifolia, I used them for spirits and was very surprised by what they put out. I thought then, I need to mass propogate and grow this agave for myself. Since it was unavailable or extremly expensive, it was not feasible for a farm. Now by harvesting the mature flower stalks and saving all the seed i have an affordable option to mass grow these as well as offer them to the industry here in CA at prices that arent robbery. I had to give up making them into a spirit in exchange for having tens of thousands of them potentially able to be made into spirits in the future. I also talk about why seed starting agave is so important for farmers and agave genetics. Enjoy the podcast and have a great day! If you need any Agave Ovatifolia seed, or agave & cactus plants contact me by dm on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok, youtube and pinterest: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Todays episode is me talking about a project i have been working on for a bit, why im planting so much, how im doing it, and just random thoughts as I discuss planting. . . If you any agave or cactus plants contact me by dm on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok, youtube and pinterest: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Todays podcast is on Opuntia Littoralis, also known as Coastal Prickly Pear & California prickly pear. Its one of my strongest cactus that i grow, it is a california native, drought tolerant, cold hardy, and fast growing with 1000+ uses. It is among my favorites! I hope today you learn about opuntia littoralis and get excited enough to grow it or other opuntias or cactus. Alot of potential in the cactus family for dryfarm crops. Lots of products to make as well. If you need any opuntia littoralis, agave or cactus plants contact me by dm on : instagram: farmingandgardeningcalifornia agaverocaliforniano.com tiktok, youtube and pinterest: agaverocaliforniano facebook: California agave farmer email: ranchoorodelmojave@gmail.com Also visit and support the California Agave Alliance, at Californiaagavealliance.com, we are working on creating a diverse and equitable agave industry in California. Donations are welcome if that is a mission you support! We are also on instagram as Californiaagavealliance. Have a great day everyone and enjoy!

Todays episode is my conversation with my friend Qanwar. He is a local to Lancaster, CA, where i farm and he reached out to me wanting to learn about agave, so i told him to come help me plant and as we did that we could discuss his questions in depth. He planted lots of agave and i answered alot of his questions. This is an hour of me answering some questions, and these are questions many beginner farmers will have as well, so i thought it would be useful knowledge for everyone on agave & cactus talk too. Enjoy the conversation, and let me know in the comments if you have other topics on agave or cactus you would like me to discuss. Have a good one everyone!

Talking about Agave Vilmoriniana and why I think it has alot of potential in various industries. It is my favorite agave and it has been one of the strongest agaves that i have dryfarmed. Amolé is one of my favorite agaves to distill and it also is helping me get rid of pests on other agaves. Maybe it holds the key to agave being used as medicine. If you want to find out more about Amole/Agave Vilmoriniana visit Agaverocaliforniano.com where you can learn more about them or purchase them if you want.

In this episode I discuss the agave roasting oven i am currently working on building, as well as various other aboveground and underground ovens i have built and utilized.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. Today is the 2nd part of maybe a 3 or 4 part series on choosing what agave to farm, whether in California or elsewhere. There are alot of factors that can affect how your agave grow or what agave you can grow, and while i dont go through everything, this podcast series should be an excellent primer to get you started on the right foot farming agave. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me or leave a comment. If you want to get in contact with me or buy agave, feel free to contact me anywhere below: IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia tiktok: Agaverocaliforniano Pinterest : Agavero Californiano eBay: Cactirecycling Etsy: honestgreens Websites: Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales) Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast. Today is the begining of maybe a 3 or 4 part series on choosing what agave to farm, whether in California or elsewhere. There are alot of factors that can affect how your agave grow or what agave you can grow, and while i dont go through everything, this podcast series should be an excellent primer to get you started on the right foot farming agave. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me or leave a comment. If you want to get in contact with me or buy agave, feel free to contact me anywhere below: IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia tiktok: Agaverocaliforniano Pinterest : Agavero Californiano eBay: Cactirecycling Etsy: honestgreens Websites: Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales) Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

Talking about my experiences growing agave desmettiana variegata in california and observations ive made about the plant, how it grows, and what its potential uses are. It is an agave that is becoming one of my favorites as it is in the top 5 of agaves i cultivate in terms of numbers. Currently have over 20k of them planted. If you have any questions about agave desmettiana variegata or want to purchase any plants for your farm/garden, feel free to contact me anywhere below or leave a comment IG: FarmingandGardeningCalifornia tiktok: agavexcactus Pinterest : Agavero Californiano eBay: Cactirecycling Etsy: honestgreens Websites: Agaverocaliforniano.com (Plant info & sales) Californiaagavealliance.com ( CA agave Alliance )

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.