Don’t assume that the enormous, wickedly fanged Agave americana-- better known to some gardeners as the century plant -- is the only agave around. The genus offers hundreds of choices, and some of the ...

Agaves constitute one of the best- adapted groups of landscape plants for arid gardens. Their stiff, sword-shaped leaves and bold rosette pattern of growth make them ideal accent plants. Besides being ...

Shovels in hand, dozens of volunteers peeled back layers of bright green undergrowth and drying grasses at Parque La Colorada in Álamos, Sonora. Dripping with sweat on this humid, October afternoon, ...

A couple of years ago, while on holiday on the Isle of Wight, I purchased a gorgeous Agave in the shop at Ventnor Botanic Garden! It was a small Agave kichiokan Glow, a stunningly compact and imposing ...

It is happy hour for Mexico's tequila industry, now on track to produce a record 210 million liters this year. Sales hit a new high in tequila's top export market, the United States, when tipplers ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tequila’s main ingredient, the Blue Weber agave plant (or Agave tequilana, its scientific name), is a hardy ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bowl of ‘Zole, a mezcal and pozole event, is coming to Denver on March 30, and with it, ticket-holders can try around 20 versions of pozole from chefs all ...

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In May, I got sunburned standing outside in rural Mexico drinking moonshine from a recycled soda bottle. Sounds like the start to a Cinco de Mayo Hangover movie, but I was there because Erick ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Jalisco news every morning. Tequila’s main ingredient, the Blue Weber agave plant (or Agave tequilana, its scientific name), is a hardy ...