Woolf was thinking about the agave plant: The large ... are about 15 months old — still about four years away from a harvest. Some of them took on a more purple hue in the past year, which ...

Three times a week, a special tool with sharp blades is used to harvest the heart of the plant while the shoots are cut and planted to start new rows of keiki agave. Irrigation is not necessary as ...

Farmers who harvest agave plants, called jimadores, chop agave into a round shape to reveal the heart of the plant, called a piña. One piña can produce around one case, which is about 12 bottles ...

In the sun-drenched highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, jimadores (artisanal agave farmers) still hand-harvest and ferment agave—a practice dating back thousands of years. Today, though, some of the ...