Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden.

Jimadores are more than agricultural workers. They are an interwoven part of Mexico’s rich cultural heritage. The jimador is ...

In Mexico, underpinning the mezcal industry with sustainable agave production is crucial to long-term land health and ...

If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...

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Surely, I must be in the presence of nobility. Tiny raindrops on the pale green leaves of the agave glistened in the morning sunlight like precious sapphires on the most magnificent royal crown. It ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the southeast tip of a large valley in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental is the small Mexican ...

Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

Mexican long-nosed bats have a taste for agave nectar, fueling their migration from Mexico to the U.S. each summer ...