MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

In Arizona, a resort and a nano-distillery see promise in small-scale agave farming, focusing on native species.

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 ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) -- Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started ...