Among the diverse flora of Mexico, few plants are as iconic and culturally significant as the agave, specifically the blue ...

The unusually vigorous Agave tequilana ‘Weber Azul’ is by far the most popular variety for tequila production. Among the best desert plants, there are also many other species and varieties ...

Waikulu Distillery owner Paul Turner stands in a Makawao field of blue agave plants Wednesday morning while describing the process of farming and distilling his premium agave spirit on Maui.

Today, Woolf has about 400,000 plants that he shipped in from Mexico — tequila’s Agave Tequilana and mezcal’s Agave Espadin — on about 340 acres, some of them visible from Interstate 5 on ...