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The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the heart of the plant. It's then extracted, filtered, and heated to create the product sold in stores.

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After that, he says he'll find the plant's owner and ask whether he can harvest it. "We're doing this in a kind of organic — not grassroots, but almost agave roots movement," Nelson says.