A Climate Resilient Crop for California
Membership
Options
Full Member
$1,000/year
Full Members must be either a California agave grower or California licensed distiller. Full members have voting rights and may serve as members of the Board of Directors and as Officers.
Agave Lover
$100/year
Agave Lovers includes everyone else! You enjoy agave spirits, agave as a potential crop, or just everything about agaves, especially in California, and you want to see this industry grow. You’ll be included in email notices of upcoming agave spirits releases and special events and will be eligible for discounts offered by our Council members who choose to offer them to other Council members.
Associate Member
$250/year
Associate Members are generally in related trades, such as retailers, restaurants, bars, cooperages, bottlers, agave media, etc. It’s a broad category that covers any business related interest. Associate Members do not have voting rights but can serve on the Board and be an Officer.
Why
Join?
The work we do to grow this industry requires funding from our members.
New growers are popping up all over. Our biggest current challenge is finding enough agaves to meet the demand, but we're making good progress on multiple fronts.
Supporting the Council offers a chance to better understand the impact of location on the growth of the plant, which can be a source of fiber and alternative sweetener as well as the distilled spirits it can produce.
Accomplishments
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AB 2303 was sponsored by the California Agave Council and requires any agave spirits labeled with the words "California Agave Spirits," in any combination, to be made from 100% California grown agave, with no flavoring or coloring additives.
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On May 24th, 2022 we gathered at UC Davis to discuss agave grower and distiller issues to foster collaboration and offer a chance to share knowledge.
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The University of California, Davis, has established the Stuart & Lisa Woolf Fund for Agave Research to focus on outreach and research into the plants and their viability as a low-water crop in the state.
“In all likelihood, I’m going to end up with more and more of my land being unable to farm because I just don’t have enough water. Agaves offer a promising solution.”
— Stuart Woolf, Grower, Woolf Farming
“What gets us excited is doing something that is fundamentally or inherently of this place,” explains Henry, “and hopefully at the same time actually adds value, adds something new to the great wide world of spirits rather than being derivative.”
