Happy to announce that Rezpiral has realized it's 7th consecutive resource share with producer families!!! 2023 Revenue share: $15,000 USD redistributed to 6 partner producer families: Reyna Sanchez 21%, Berta Vasquez 31%, Simeon Ramirez 15%, Abel Martinez 11% Luis Antonio 8% use, Alejandrina & Nicolas Hernandez 15% Receipt letter to producers: El proyecto Rezpiral … Continue reading 2023 Revenue share transparency
This year, Rezpiral has collaborated with mezcalero campesino and school teacher Luis Antonio Santiago of San Vicente Coatlan who runs an agave nursery where he grows agave from seed. 8,700 agave of these agave, of the subvarietals Arroqueño and Mexicano, were purchased and gifted to different campesino mezcalero families - mostly with whom Rezpiral has … Continue reading 2023 Agave gifting/transplanting
April 21, 2023 Every year, I take good time to think through where I'm at with a handful of campesino mezcaleros with whom I've worked and befriended over the course of eight years. I think long and hard about aesthetics, mediums, ideas - lots of things really. To what this project or practice, known … Continue reading Artworks – 2023
$18,421 or 30% of the post-cost profit of 2022 redistributed as a % correlated to each family's part/contribution to the 7th Series of mezcals. Fund re-distribution as follows: Simeon Ramirez 14% Berta Vasquez 24% Aureliano Hernández 12% Abel Martínez 8% Reina Sanchez 16% Christina & Tio Chico (RIP) 4% Alejandrina & Nicolás Hernández 14% Luis … Continue reading 2022 Profit share – $18,421 to 8 families
A thank you to all those that visited, gave life & support to the Vivero Amigos del Maguey y la Biodiversidad, or simply supported from afar, between 2018 and 2021. Over these years, 47,000 agaves of all types, and mostly from seed, came to life that wouldn't have otherwise. That and a sterile piece of … Continue reading El Vivero/Nursery project 2018-2021: THANK YOU
The second part of the multi-media short-film series "Rainy Seasons" // "Temporadas de Lluvia" is now viewable here below. This second part shares the perspectives and opinions of those who lent their voices, knowledge and image to the original film. "This brief compilation is an acknowledgement to all campesino/peasant communities who farm/produce in small-scale and … Continue reading Watch video online: Reflections upon Rainy Seasons // Miradas Acerca de Temporadas de Lluvia, 9 minutes 20 seconds.
August 5, 2022 – For years now agave seed from different family producers such as Berta, Reina or Simeon would be germinated and cared for in the Vivero Amigos del Maguey y la Biodiversidad. This year marks the permanent closure of the nursery/project after the municipality decided to take the land back, and in this … Continue reading Trasplantación de Agave, 2022
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