EVENT SPONSORS
CASTLE HOT SPRINGS | W. K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION | UA SOUTHWEST CENTER
A Future Inspired By Agave
9am-6pm | Free | 21+
*Registration with approved invitation only
The 2025 Summit will be a day of action focused on bringing the vision of the City of Century plants to reality.
Tucson and Southern Arizona can be the Region of Century Plants: uniting communities across borders to foster agave sustainability, cultural heritage, and economic resilience for future generations.
However, we are not there yet. Actions across stakeholder groups are needed to elevate the roles and relationships between people and the agave plant in the modern era. Getting from here to there is the focus of the 2025 Agave Renaissance Summit.
The day-long Summit builds from the conversations and Agave Summits in Tucson in 2023 and Sonora 2024 of the past couple years and focuses on several critical topic areas of action.
Friday April 11, 2025
9 am to 6 pm, Hotel Congress
MORNING SESSIONS
Desert Adapted Heritage Foods
Moderated by:
Patty Emmert, Local First Arizona
Jonathan Mabry, Tucson City of Gastronomy
Market Expansion of Bacanora into the US
Moderated by:
Francisco Terrazas, Tequila Interchange Project
Susan Coss, Mezcalistas
Arts and Storytelling
Moderated by:
Logan Phillips, Dirty Verbs
Robert Villa, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Business, Branding, Sense of Place with Agave as the Anchor
Moderated by:
Rafael Barceló Durazo, Consul of Mexico in Tucson, Arizona
Marisol Vindiola, Orange 142
Bat Friendly & Beyond, creating a label for agave sustainability in the borderlands
Moderated by:
Alfredo Leal Sandoval, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
Benjamin T. Wilder, Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers
Open for topic established day of
2025 Agave Renaissance Summit Fellowship Application
We are considering fellowship applications for Agave Producers in Northern Mexico AND Student/Early Career/Indigenous fellows to support your attendance at the 2025 Summit and Festival. Fellowships will be for a set amount (TBD, no less than $250 USD per person) to cover any expenses needed and will be distributed in cash at the Summit.
Thank you to all applicants - the fellowship application has closed. We are excited to see you at the Summit!
Tucson City of Century Plants
How Agaves Have Shaped Landscapes & Cultures
in the Old Pueblo
