Craig Reynolds, photographed on Sept. 24, is preparing for a November harvest at his agave farm in Woodland. He and others will use the sharp, long-handled coa de jima to slice away the plants’ ...

I was, you could say, a fan of the quintessential Mexican spirit and loved the flavour of the spiky agave plant it’s distilled from. But then one day I had a bit too much Jose Cuervo and ...