Agave

Agave Cuervo

Agave

 

fields of Agave

 

name of a distillery on the hillside of Agave

 

 

a mature Agave

 

the babies

 

the jimadores
cutter of the Agave

 

cutting out the baby

 

the baby trimmed for planting

 

planting the baby

 

panted for its 8 year long growth to be mature

 

a jimadores can plant 2,000 babies in an 8 hour day

 

Agave are periodically trimmed back

Link to a Video clip showing trimming of the Agave for harvest

 

cutting away the Agave to expose the piňa

 

the piňa

 

the piňa

 

 

 

piňa

 

slicing the piňa

 

to show its interior

 

 the starch which can be converted to alcohol

 

all in a day's work

 

commemorated in a painting on the back of a tourist bus

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