Nature-Based Solutions

As an extension of Regeneration International’s Billion Agave Project, we work with farmers to plant a drought-tolerant agroforestry system with agave, traditional crops, and native trees to improve farmer yields, provide livestock forage, and capture atmospheric carbon.

The water-efficient, nutrient-rich silage (livestock feed) comes from agave biomass, providing a readily available, inexpensive option for farmers to keep animals alive during the dry season.

We are committed to locally-driven success. In addition to working with farm cooperatives, we partner with community-managed forest associations to regenerate and protect degraded Spiny Forest habitat, home to IUCN Red List species at risk of extinction.

Reduce Poverty; Preserve the Spiny Forest

With few sources of reliable income, families resort to harvesting coal(?) in the Spiny Forest to sell for meager amounts in nearby cities. The immediate benefit is small while the lasting impact is huge — both on the perpetuation of poverty due to further degradation of the land and on the reduction of habitat for unique and endangered species.

To find long-term solutions, we are product testing agave- and prickly pear-based alcoholic spirits, with the goal of creating a luxury export brand to provide desperately-needed jobs and farm income and to create opportunities for employee ownership and profit sharing. The proud people of the Deep South are working together, and with us, to reduce local poverty and protect their unique home and way of life.