30% share

Rezpiral realizes a fair-trade practice in part by redirecting a part of profits back to producers at the end of the year (profits defined as total sales to distributors minus all project costs).

In 2020 profit share has evolved to 30% from the original 10% distributed yearly from 2017 to 2019. Currently, producers determine where these funds go.

Initially, in 2017, the profit share program was conceived as a means to supporting the following areas.

• Land conservation and management
• Supporting seeding practices and re-forestation
• Promote land stewardship and advocacy for communal and local land control
• Promotion of bio-diversity and preservation/propagation of endemic agave species
• Supporting family-run and owned independent production

This practice has since evolved to understand the well-being & health of the family as equally important and integral and now allows families to fully determine the best destination & use of the funds.

2021 30% Profit Share declaration:

$19,651 USD // 401,877 MXP – redistribution break down

17% Berta Vasquez

12% Aureliano Hernández

16% Simeón Ramírez

20% Reina Sánchez

13% Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernández

7% Familia de Tio Chico & Christina

14% Leonardo

2020 30% Profit Share declaration:

February – Berta Vasquez, Aureliano Hernandez, Simeon Ramirez, Reina Sanchez: LIBRE (no reporting)

July Berta Vasquez: Family support, mezcal production.

July Aureliano Hernandez: Agrarian labor, personal expenses.

July Simeon Ramirez: Agrarian labor, agave transplanting and land clearing

July Reina Sanchez: Tractoring a piece of land.

2019 10% Profit Share declaration:

Dec. Aureliano Hernandez: Operating costs

Nov. Berta Vasquez: Labor to harvest maize, zacate, labor to clean a field of agave, and for personal expenses.

Nov. Reina Sanchez: Financing clearing of land for agave planting. Installation of a well, water pump, irrigation system, electrical infrastructure.

Nov. Simeon Ramirez: Concrete postings and barbed wire to secure a large parcel of land from theft. Improvements to palenque infrastructure/practice.

Apolonio/Simeon Ramirez: to rehabilitate part of the palenque and to continue planting agave

Berta Vasquez: towards household costs.

Leonardo Hernandez: to rescue local agave, and for the costs of labor

Reina Sanchez: to open/graze a piece of land to plant agave, and for other costs, to build another oven and roof for the oven

Aureliano Hernandez: to support costs of his new nursery

Abel Martinez: Towards the purchasing of equipment (pine fermentation vats) and costs in the palenque

2018 10% Profit Share declaration:

Apolonio/Simeon Ramirez: clean and prepare lands of San Agustin Amatengo for the transplanting of agaves (labor & transportation).

Berta Vasquez: 1/3 costs of improving roofing of her house, 1/3 for costs in the fields (costs of farming & agave), 1/3 for household costs.

Leonardo Hernandez: agave sustainability: 30% for watering and maintenance of lands, 30% labor, 40% grazing lands.

Reina Sanchez: 1 part for materials and costs of the production of compost and organic insecticide (produced by her neighbor Carlitos) 3 parts for laminate & tubes (building materials).

Aureliano Hernandez: One part for the production of mezcal (purchase of agave), and the other part for planting and preparing of land (workers).

2017 10% Profit Share declaration:

Lalo: in support of a local Candelaria festival in Santa Catarina Minas

Berta Vasquez: supporting cost of concrete posts, barbed wire and labor in the preparing of a plot of land for agave planting.

Aureliano Hernandez: supporting this years planting with purchase of 2,000 local maguey species